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 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.

Unless doing high end work on control surveys, 1" guns are overrated. In today's world of GNNS and constraining control networks with a variety of to...

Whether you use a 5" or 1" gun, do you really think the next guy is going to come up to the same location within 0.01 or less?

Programmed calculator.

I'm not following what the problem is if the 11' to cover the overhang and setbacks were bought/sold, unless there was no documentation recording the ...

Their product description dances around the topic of actually by referencing the source of their boundaries as being based on maps and other informati...

I hear you, I have a home and property in the town that I grew up in and have owned it for almost 34 years. It's an investment property and my tenant...

You are putting the cart before the horse when it comes to setting "marks". The local zoning officials do not just come up with these requirements an...