@chris-bouffard I wouldn't bring up "datum" if nobody asked. But somebody did ask. Not only that, they thought that whether lat-long was expressed as ...

@norman-oklahoma In my state, surveyors under certain conditions are supposed to upload pdfs of certain surveys to a public site, but the law has only...

I'm a retired electronics engineer, not a surveyor, and most of my work was done in various versions of CAD, not on paper. (Even in the 1980s). I woul...

@jph Exactly, once the plan is printed all the security benefits of a digital signature are gone.

@jcrume Cryptographic digital signatures would be good if everybody used them. But if people are accustomed to use digital files that lack cryptograph...

@rover83 There are mapping applications, such as QGIS, that are open source, so an outsider with the right skills could examine the source code and fi...

I'm not a surveyor, but now and then I look at fairly recent surveys as a Vermont justice of the peace. The ones I've seen for single residential lots...

I understand that Kentucky used to be part of Virginia. In some colonies, when a town was chartered, some land was reserved for a school. There's a ch...

I imagine the purpose of any reticule light for any total station or theodolite is so you can see the reticule while you are doing a star sight.

Depending on whether the river is navigable under federal rules, or whether the state law allows travel on boatable rivers regardless of the wishes of...

@dougie Dairies park their tankers on narrow roads while collecting milk from farms, and get in my way. Government has other ways of getting in my way...

This video reminds me of a show, Hometime with hosts Dean Johnson and Joanne Liebler. They were making important decisions about major changes to hous...

@Bill93 thanks for the MICA files. I only had a much earlier version, and the online update is no longer available. The MICA publisher, Wilmann-Bell, ...

My experience as a Vermont justice of the peace and member of a town board of civil authority, which hears appeals of the appraisal of properties for ...

@peter-lothian I don't know how real estate taxes are done outside my own town. I'll briefly describe how my town does it so others can be aware of po...