>Are NAVD88 elevations Ellipsoidal or Orthometric? Do NAVD88 Elevations depend on what particular Geoid was in effect at that time?NAVD88 is Orthom...

NAVD88 is a vertical datum. NAD83(xxx) is a horizontal datum. The biggest issues I know of would be which geoid model your software is using, and th...

Title Policy "Exceptions"So basically all the title insurance covers is something they missed in the public records.I'm glad Iowa doesn't have title i...

Old School traverse questionAccording to my "old school" textbook (Davis, Foote, & Kelly, 1960's) the standard method of traversing would be to ho...

No legal backing for this opinion, but I'd say:A "parent tract" to the parcel of interest was specifically the larger one it was once a part of, anda ...

> rake (or whatever it is)It's a piece of a spike drag harrow, a now little-used farm implement to break up and smooth tilled ground before plantin...

With that much smaller price, there is a risk that the seller will back out or the broker decide he can't do what he wanted with it. Better they know...

>a double barrel shotgun barrelPincushioned when originally monumented.

Perfect! For a while they were probably common at the salvage yard and thus much less expensive than Berntsen breakaway. The base would stay pretty ...

>I've never seen a tangent of a tankNor have I ever seen that stated on the NGS data sheets. For smokestacks and standpipes, I would expect them t...

>It's a lot easier on land than at seaThat's for sure, but then the requirements get tightened on land. I expect you were pretty happy with 1 arc ...

Don't try solar with the S6. Everything I've read says you'll burn out the EDM. Stick to Polaris.

A 5" 200 Series Is Absolutely What You WantBuy the best the budget will allow. I am tinkering with measurements just for my own interest and educatio...

>It's not easy to relate a terrestrial survey to XYZ nor is it easy to relate XYZ to a 2D "level" plane.Indeed. But software could be written with ...

I didn't see any mention of easement by prescription. Maybe that's what the legal battle referred to and the reporter didn't know what it meant.

I have used a sun and Polaris calculator called SPADE, which I found as a free download somewhere. I don't know if the ephemeris in it is still good ...

Large area projects are far beyond my expertise, but the idea occurs: has anyone done a project like this in XYZ coordinates? There would be no disto...

Logic, which has very little to do with regulations, would dictate that the owner must sign some document. I would hope that no one could subdivide m...