Topcon came and did a big equipment demo seminar hereabouts a few weeks ago. The Topcon guy asked how many of us were still doing static GPS with post...

Here's what I use: "Should unusual circumstances make it infeasible to locate any parcel boundaries in question, the client will be notified and advis...

What Nate says is the way I've always understood it.

"Land disputes are less acute in urban centers, where sidewalks, streets and building walls help clarify boundaries. But in the countryside, deeds ref...

I first started surveying working for someone else as a teenager. Likely my first acquisition was a marker to mark the grade stakes he had me set. But...

Typically here in central Maine "larger parcels" are wooded and many surveyors do not usually mark the lines they survey. I realized after years of pr...

Okay Kent, I'll spell it out...I'd agree that we work for our clients -- their needs ought to be met.I've heard it argued around here that independent...

Just curious?Most of the lawyers around here would not know how to phrase the question in the first place.

"Discontinued" is a Maine legalism for a roadfor which a town has terminated its maintenance obligation.

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Maybe TRU a/k/a Topcon Receiver Utility, also available from the Topcon site.

Looks like I was right when I said at least one state board provides a .dwg template for an acceptable seal. It's Alaska:

When I first realized how much simpler life would be with a CAD stamp I pored over Maine's licensing statutes and its seal requirements which mostly d...

It's happened to me in the somewhat distant past. I just very gently said "m'am I stand by everything I've said or done on this project, but I'm not g...

I used to just pin endpoints but I've realized the client wants to be able to find the line and now I routinely flag the line out -- I avoid blazing a...

I like PC Survey a lot.