Congratulations on getting a real bargain on the T1A. Please explain your procedure in more detail. I, too, am uncertain if you are getting the dista...

What do you mean by "listed as"? No occupation? How do the deeds for this and adjoiner read? What are the requirements in this jurisdiction?

Buy a copy of Wolf & Ghilani's Elementary Surveying.?ÿ An edition one or two back is still good and much cheaper than the latest.

Slope versus horizontal is one thing.?ÿ Horizontal ground versus grid is another. When you project the round earth on a flat plane (like SPC or UTM) ...

If you don't set POL close to the corners (how close depending on occupation etc) there should be no confusion with actual corners. But why not use s...

In theory the standard error should grow by the square root of the number of pointings. 5 x sqrt(2)=7.1

What do you mean "wear" ??ÿ It'll take a bit longer but the hardware doesn't wear out any faster.

@lurker?ÿ 21 NCAC 56.1602 (g) (g) Tie lines defined. Where the results of a survey are reported in the form of a plat or a written description, one ...

@flga-2-2?ÿ Only if in the original.

Picky point: stencil and stamping are very different things.

Overall, your post is excellent, but as a nit-pick this phrase bothered me. An error ellipse is not a region where any position is equally likely. It...

Plastic caps on rebar seems to be the norm in Iowa.?ÿ Requiring metal caps is going further than most.?ÿ Heck, I think there are still states that don...

Most land surveying jobs do not have a point with known coordinates to start from. Rather there is a description or plat to identify one or more point...