Sometimes a key approach is to be assured they are comparing apples to apples. Have a well defined scope as provided by them, and make sure they unde...

A couple years ago I did the staking for improvements to an old RR depot building. It was BNSF main track line, with an Amtrak passenger stop. Thus ...

Without being to flippant, I will suggest that there are gazillion 'How to Survey' books out there. Management cometh from within though. You either...

Far far worse, if that's possible. But it could be the area I live in. House is listed and hopefully will sell soon - before I give it back to the b...

I never have quite perfected the use of an "architect scale". Some kind of inches = something BS. I kind of can handle a "metric scale", but that is...

> something tells me not to trust the elevation on this one :-DBut wouldn't the fact that there is flagging on it tend to make it more official ;-...

measurements from another WayneAs a fellow Waynester, I've got to point out that those dimensions are not exact. Any surveyor that reports side ties ...

> ...make sure you note that it is a description prepared from existing records and in no way shape, form, or fashion, represents a Land Boundary S...

One of the great things I've experienced from coming from MI, which is pretty much a M & B description state, to AZ is that things like this are s...

> Or better yet, some knowledgeable surveyor tries to follow in your footsteps trying to duplicate your datum and you are not able to answer the qu...

The only issue I see that could impact future work is the one point calibration/localization for horizontal. Me, I often start out a project in such ...

That is a trick they learned/carried over from Geodimeter. If you get 4 or 5 yrs from the internal battery, that's good. I do not believe there is a...