Putting direction above distance?

After you choose (of course) to follow the the section lines for two sides, and hold 5 dist, there is one degree of freedom left. For 5 points you ne...

This might be a way somebody could get away with voting in two states. They could also move and establish residence in a new state by other means and...

That doesn't make a lot of sense. Does the survey have to state that the owner is resident on the parcel to qualify? Just owning land doesn't mean y...

Have you tried putting the pictures in a folder that is within the DropboxPublic folder? Right click on that subfolder and get the Dropbox public lin...

It would be good to tell us more about the project - which states' line?If you want us to see more photos, your link must be a public link from dropbo...

I think I've heard that the tax parcel ID's are subject to change at the whim of the assessor's GIS people. Not that it happens often, but a possibil...

It makes sense to have an uninterested party witness. So do the rules really allow the notary to be an employee of one of the parties?

You can assume any arbitrary direction, like a best guess at North, and build a local coordinate system from there. It won't tie into anything else i...

Last Word - zymurgyAt least that's the last word in my dictionary. So even if someone posts later I had the last word.

What I can't believe is...One step forward would be to realize that the priority list for monuments, distances, bearings, coordinates, etc. was create...

and do you have a license to hammer all over this land?

The redundant but repeatable bearing measurement isn't as valuable in a well-monumented subdivision as for a parcel that has few surviving monuments (...

I used to not be surprised at 50-75 ft discrepancies between GE and known positions, or discontinuities where photos met. I think they have gotten be...

I always used to see deeds stating "$1 and other valuable considerations" when people didn't care to include the actual price, or if there was a prope...

Wrong!I see my mistake now. I needed to draw that lower right hand corner with exaggeration so it was clear what distance to use - the 40.501. By my...

>spec. claims an RMSE 4mm + 2ppm (though I am unclear on the units of the ppm). The observed error would be a function of distance, would it not?P...

I don't see a lot of disagreement in these threads on the basics, but mostly a difference in what people put the emphasis on. My summary of the topic...