We can assume the parties won't talk to each other and certainly won't agree on a surveyor, which is why the court or another neutral party should hav...

Invisible pointsOr you could be like me and never learn. If I need temporary points for reflectorless so I can shoot some building corners I use a bla...

Depending on the size of the project, I reserve points 1-200 for calculations, and start data collecting with 201 up. Larger job, 1-400 and 401. That ...

My personal best is the City of Tucson incompetent who, after I had signed and sealed the plat, put a heavy black line around the strip to be dedicate...

That one I can answer: They had the street view camera strapped to a guy's back, and the camera bank was two feet over his head. Must have been really...

Take a shot on the backsight point, and a shot about where you think the 450' point is. Inverse between the two points to get the distance, and adjust...

In my experience 0.07 is quite legible, and for recorded documents 0.10 is standard. Anything over that is overkill.

Arizona tooI saw that done on a commercial shopping center "survey." The lines matched the GIS exactly, which means they were off 7' east/west and 2' ...

I remember the rush survey for the child care center at the intersection of A and B. Not until we got the title report did I realize there were two ch...

Exactly. Shoot the centerline pavement, anything, just to be sure you are about in the right place.

I looked on line too, and there are several places where they could have taken a rough check shot to just prove they were in the right place. That is ...

Fascinating. How I envy you.Gorgeous scenery.

No, no, no.If this board isn't ranting about architects, it's title companies, or attorneys. Peers, there are very annoying members of each of those, ...

I'm astonished it is still there after all the construction over the years. Most of us (including me) would have assumed it was long gone and searched...