Since Texas does not provide for recording plats, I think it's interesting what Texas land owners do with their plats once the transaction or construc...

A land owner who uses his property, which might include modifications such as building a fence, planting a garden, or cutting down a tree, based on a ...

So you think your client only wants the plat to buy the house, and once he buys it, he no longer cares where his property line is?

Surveying is not the only use for a plat. It can be used for construction, taxation, hiking, gardening, laying out amateur radio antennas, parking a b...

Will you give me digital data? If so, what formats are available? Who will hold the copyright on the plat?

Perhaps... Perhaps...Surveyors in some states get to enter on to nearby properties to complete a survey. In the remaining states, surveyors have some ...

Buying New Narrow Band Radio Does Not Mean It Is New InsideI've never worked with data radios for surveying, but I've worked with voice FM radios. The...

I'm taking a break from unloading the yard of cow compost I just picked up from my neighbor. Sources on the internet say that weighs about 1000 pounds...

Just curious, does Oklahoma allow or require plats to be recorded? If so, I wonder how the title company would react if something like "and more parti...

I wonder about the phrase "physically defined". In practice, geodetic latitude and longitude are based on adopted latitude and longitude of a set of s...

For password generation, I use an 8 sided die from a discarded board game. It's numbered 1 to 8. I add 1, giving 2 to 9. I never have to figure out if...

Surveyors have a few books they like to use to help decide where the boundary is (such as Brown). Do lawyers have a few books that are favored for how...

Surveying is not Art and Science...only a math problemIf someone wanted to copy recorded plats into a GIS system, that would be a copyright question, ...

Is there any possibility they may have been referred to in an adjoinder's deed or plat that was written after your original survey?

Is that essentially how tax maps are done?

If your vehicles carry first aid kits, (1) have a system to check for expired items, and (2) replace latex gloves with nitrile or vinyl. (At first gla...

I have A VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand too. Mine is the newer one that lets you produce JPEG or PDF, but each page is a separate PDF file. Also, it req...

Mr. Land Ho seems to be interested in making a tradeoff between spending cash and using his own time. To take it to the no cash, lots of time end of t...

The requirements don't depend ONLY on the operating frequency, they also depend on the service the radio is licensed in. For example, VHF and UHF radi...

I'm a first responder. I've never seen a first responder who had an electronic device that could be carried into a building to find one's way around. ...