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RE: Title Company Reserving Survey Discrepancies?

PROPERTY SUBJECT TO: Discrepancies, conflicts in boundary lines, shortages in area, encroachments, or other facts which a correct survey would disclos...

7 years ago
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RE: AI and land surveying

That would be nice, then we can have someone, I guess something to blame when things go wrong. I'm all for it.

7 years ago
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RE: Reporting Acreage

I guess I meant 4 square feet

7 years ago
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RE: Reporting Acreage

Wouldn't that be 4 acre feet

7 years ago
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RE: Is traverse kit needed these days?

I don't use a tripod, tribrach and prism much, but I always have it in the truck. Standard equipment that if you don't have it you'll need it.

7 years ago
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RE: Trouble between GPS pairs - Help

Clean GPS data is the way to go. If you have the old raw data, use that and check with new GPS occupations into a few control points every time you ha...

7 years ago
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RE: What am I missing here?

As Bill said, you must locate 2 points with ?ÿstate plane. One will give will give you a pivot point the other a grid bearing. It's the same as transl...

7 years ago
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RE: Original, undisturbed monument is off 3.5'

Land owners move monuments all the time. We have the option to accept or reject any monument, including an original monument if we believe it to be mo...

7 years ago
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RE: Leaning monument, intent or disturbed?

That is one reasong I prefer to set 1/2" rebars, if it gets hit, it usually bends and you can still find the vertical location where it originally was...

7 years ago
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RE: A different perspective

eapls2708, post: 456052, member: 589 wrote: Ooooohh! Mean! But could be pretty entertaining.Yeah, but they'll probably accept one of them

7 years ago
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RE: Record Measurement Not matching Quandary

It will always be the case and yes the smaller the residuals the less affect over all. Your localization is simply an average location, scale and rota...

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RE: Record Measurement Not matching Quandary

Skeeter1996, post: 455909, member: 9224 wrote: I wonder about that. It seems to usually come up with the same point as porportioning does. If you hold...

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RE: Record Measurement Not matching Quandary

Skeeter1996, post: 455843, member: 9224 wrote: I once had 97 pins along an irrigation ditch to find. All the pins we're buried. By using a 3 point cal...

7 years ago
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RE: Record Measurement Not matching Quandary

I prefer to calculate plats needed for my survey. I reserve a group of points for entered points, plats and calculations usually 1-99, or 1-199 and th...

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RE: Record Measurement Not matching Quandary

I never liked localization to any survey including my own until I was sure that the corners had not been moved. A 2 point localization would translate...

7 years ago
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RE: Description drafting

I've used a preliminary sketch many times but never a preliminary description. Who would this be given to?

7 years ago
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RE: Description drafting

I guess I'm wondering why a surveyor would write a description from research.

7 years ago
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RE: Accept the shot or not?

As already mentioned, a couple of offsets would have verified the location.

7 years ago
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