"The pipe worked very well with 5 other lot corner monuments (rods and pipes) of an adjoining parcel that I used for my basis of bearing"that's a pinc...
Local PreferencesD for Deed - not everything is record(ed)
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No. I can't think of a situation that would put a property owner more on edge than an unsolicited surveyor coming up and telling them "You might have ...
I'll see your conjuctionanyone else got the urge to play some poker?:-D :beer:
Agreed. Even with our generous occupational code (MI), many are still apathetic about the infringement on our profession from all sides - GIS, machine...
We capture the full surveying gamut in MI:(f) “Practice of professional surveying” means providing professional services such as consultation,investig...
I'd have wagered a fair sum of money its not a spec'd highway job. $7 / sq yd sounds reasonable. Your first post indicated $6500 for tree trimming / r...
Kent, separate out the clearing & grubbing, the water truck, the bobcat, etc from the total bid cost. Get your aggregate driveway construction int...
>A client sent me a bid proposal that he'd gotten from a contractor for building 818 l.f. of gravel driveway pavement and asked me for my thoughts....
seriously, how many 'detailed topos' are done routinely by unlicensed field crews? The cop survey crews really don't ruffle my feathers any...
> Our laws in Louisiana seem just a bit vague to me. Can a person not licensed as a professional land surveyor legally do detailed topographic sur...
> Surveyors have a hard enough time agreeing on the location of a monument, I can't help buy wonder how many variations and differences there are/h...
Its still unclear to me if the Xi value is negative or positive in this instance. If using an astronomical latitude of 43d30m00s, then Xi would be neg...
> I found a tutorial on astronomic vs geodetic measurements. > > It looks like I may have subtracted when I should have added? That would m...
yeah this woulda been called a beer leg at my old office just as much as if it was forward of the occupied point (thus in the way of an imaginary chai...
pull the offending irons and set new ones! 0.005' is nothing to trifle with
rhyme of the ancient cartographerYou guys are too good with this poetry stuff 🙂 I stumbled upon this by somebody named Lyman D. Lynn a number of yea...
i was working for a wastewater plant (non-survey capacity). I remember one of the other lab guys came through, saying something about a "plane flying ...
i know one thing - i'd choke the f'n cad guy for making a map look like a spider commune! Enough w/ the leaders already!
