I ran into a similar situation with our GIS manager a few years ago. Our parcel lines on our GIS imagery are anywhere from 5 -20 feet off the actual b...

Out of the many Civil Engineers I have talked with about surveying and the profession, all have thought POB was laughable as far as a professional rep...

The way I read it I say yes and yes also.

In response,- I am regularly a subcontractor on construction projects and I realize that if the contractor doesn’t complete the project they don’t get...

Thanks for the feedback - I didn’t expect such different viewpoints; I am curious how owning a percentage of the property changes it from no conflict ...

Exactly :good:

On a government, commercial or major private development my experience has been that engineering costs range from 10% to 25% of the project costs and ...

Great suggestions and references. I appreciate the effort helping me learn.

State geodetic advisor, didn’t know there was such a person. Just an observation but all the info I have been reading has dates like 1994, 1996, 1997...

Thanks for the info, much is very technical and is better understood by a geodesist than a simple surveyor such as myself but I did some conversions w...

I still use a compass in the field on a regular basis. How do you other surveyors retrace boundaries if not using compass? Do you precalc all your geo...

If they are on federal or state property we are required to report elevations to the 0.01’ (we use a digital level for this task) and horizontal to th...

I have found that the Odom/Teledyne Hydrotrac is very good at depicting different material depths.Mud is pretty easy to identify compared to actual ha...

Richard,I agree with you, especially when there is only 6 hours of muted daylight and it takes half a day to tie a corner when it would be a 1 hour de...