@bobafett I started on AutoCad R10 importing points from Design Plus, that was a cool survey package back in the DOS command days.

Welcome. It's always nice to see younger people entering the career field and seeking to advance. I think that you'll find a lot of valuable informa...

@tony it appears to be granite stone and called for. If it fits where or close to where it should be, it should be honored as an original corner, esp...

@olemanriver "Now I left the private sector at the beginning of the year 2000. I was on track to be very successful in land surveying. I was right at ...

It's much different when it comes tracing digital imager, right down to gutter lines and showing them on a plan with offsets without understanding the...

I am at a loss trying to figure out how anybody would possibly be using digital imagery from Google Maps or any other similar imagery providers.

Your findings are what they are, you obviously did your due diligence and there is no moving anything based on the evidence. If the attorney wants th...

I've had the experience of working for several different firms when I transitioned to the office and the experience to see how others are doing the sa...

I'm sure that you will acclimate to the changing environment. I don't take my drawings to the finished product; I know just enough about CAD to be da...

Not everybody is built for the office. I was a Survey PM for a large engineering firm and we ran 8 crews out of our corporate office alone. Four of ...

I transitioned to the office when I got licensed back in 1993 and never regretted it. I've always been more interested in working with the data that ...

How does a description come before closing a traverse, balancing it and applying the results before making a resolution writing a description?

I'm having a hard time understanding the question. If you traverse clockwise around a parcel or project, your angles will always be interior and angl...

Am I missing something? If you are working on jobs that have monuments with known values in any particular coordinate system, why not just do a site ...

I've been curious for some time, if you don't mind my asking, how old are you?

I ran my own shop after the market crashed in 2008 but was fortunate enough to keep a list of client contacts to reach out to after I was laid off. T...

As much of the crazy hoops that I have to jump through for some projects, I don't have to deal with GIS nonsense but do have to provide state plane ut...

This is nothing new. Levels or precision and accuracy have been specified by various classes of surveys for a very long time. This is why I often ha...

The toe of the berm is not a natural monument and the way that the easement description may or may not change when the course of the canal does. It a...

My thoughts exactly, neither LiDAR or drones should need a "sky plot" as they provide no positional value.