I'm sure there were some good note takers, but I'll bet all those examples were done in an office and chosen to fit nicely on the page. Great examples...

Those of us old enough to have grown up with "real" telephones were trained to use zero and oh interchangeably because zero was the same as Operator. ...

Most older surveying texts have a lot of field note examples. Wolf and Ghilani, my favorite recent text, has gotten very sparse on field notes. Also y...

You must be much younger than her. Did you ever meet her.

My home town remembers George Saling who won a gold medal in track hurdles at the 1932 Olympics. He died in a car crash a few months later. The school...

When I was doing GPSonBM with a ground plane antenna, I used the Trimble stick for slant neasurements. I made a table for the particular antenna dia...

Lots of formerly strong contributors missing. I don't recall seeing Uncle Paden Cash for a while. Brad Ott seems to have dropped out. Loyal Olso...

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There is also a principle that says it is assumed that a person intended to sell all of a parcel including any small accidental omission that is not a...

I don't think it's a good idea to promote the sale of survey marks on eBay, regardless of where they come from. It encourages bad actors to go out and...

That looks pretty good. I could nitpick - the description and to-reach could be separated if you wish. Also, I think the NGS style for to-reach sta...

My greatest bench mark tragedy was the only one I knew was there and GPSable in a county that had no GPSonBM submissions. I drove by and saw it in goo...

I'm sure that is the source. It looks like his example is near the Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center.

Are the CORS picked reasonable choices? Are the individual CORS results all equally bad? Were the setup locations all apparently good ones?

Franklin W. Dixon was a corporate pen name and many authors wrote the Hardy Boys books. Same with Carolyn Keene for Nancy Drew, and probably other ser...

Yearly bump.

The discussion should be about acquiescence to monumented boundary, not adverse possession. No parcel is changing ownership; only an uncertainty in th...

Every state is a metes and bounds state. A lot of them also have PLSS descriptions for their larger parcels. Even easier than rejecting a pipe is to...