@richard-germiller I volunteer for a large national charity, and have faced the personal use vs. volunteer-work use of licensed software dilemma. I ow...
@dougie Maybe the zoning board has gotten used to being able to work virtually, and would prefer a PDF.
ESRI ArcMap pro (the more recent version) or desktop (the older version) are almost free for personal use. They can be licensed for personal use for $...
@dougie I don't see why land surveyors or architects who draft by hand should be a barrier to submitting officially required drawings in electronic fo...
@jimcox ?ÿI'm only an amateur carpenter, so I don't know how to use all the scales on a framing square. But it looks like when professional carpente...
Requiring written acceptance by the grantee seems like a good idea, but I've never read anything that says it is an actual legal requirement. Since wh...
Based on my experience as a justice of the peace, who sits on a board that handles disputed assessed value for property tax purposes in my town in Ver...
@tfdoubleyou Are the 1990s monuments sticking out of the ground and plainly visible, or do you need a metal detector to find them?
The part of the law that might be amended, in the definitions section, says (7) Broadcasting The term ??broadcasting? means the dissemination...
It looks to me like a right-hander would be able to hold it in front of him* with less bending of the wrist than if it were shaped like a T. *I use "...
@not-my-real-name What a fence viewer can do depends on the law of the state where the fence viewer serves. The law in Massachusetts was rather long a...
It depends on why the owner of the property would care about the shadow. It's different, depending on whether the owner wants to watch the sunrise vs....
Will the people using the monitors be over 50 years old? The distance from screen to face is likely to be greater for larger monitors. People who are ...
What this reminds me of is the whole business of US survey foot vs. international foot was supposedly created by a need in precision machinery to have...
@kevin-hines I see the original poster is in Vermont, as am I. I'm not a land surveyor, I'm a justice of the peace, and my connection with land matter...
@tfdoubleyou I once ate lunch in a cafeteria where the sandwich meat had spoiled. I complained, and told the manager I had lost my appetite, and got a...
I tried to find a suitable old publication to figure out the answer before NAD 83 came along. At the NGS publications page I found a publication 62-3 ...
I don't get involved in precision location of points, but I do use GIS in connection with real estate taxes in my role as a justice of the peace in Ve...
The original poster did not provide the original all the way to the edge of the paper. Sometimes important information is placed near the edges of the...
