If a modern-day Diogenes the Cynic were to walk the streets looking for a good surveyor, I would be curious as to his odds of finding one amongst the ...

Count me out, The way Lucas publicly harpooned Steve Hughey and the late Steven Gardner are but 2 examples of his yellow journalistic style. And in th...

Service Tax - CalifSenate Bill 8 is floating the idea in California. It looks like it is having a hard time getting out of committee, but if you're a...

You'd be backwards and upside down on the left coast. Most DOT (CA) projects I've been involved in are South to North and West to East. I recall tha...

> The jurisdiction that I'm working in has requested a copy of the SMA in effect during 1954 and 1955 in order to evaluate a Certificate of Complia...

Dylan,Look at the LS Act portions of the link Ryan is referring to on the CLSA members only site. The Subdivision Act used to be combined with the LS...

Jim,As an alternate approach, instead of going through Encroachment Permits(they generally don't have a clue about surveying), go through the D3 land ...

I don't know. Maybe bill him for some of the hours you spend on Beerleg.com to call it even for him not cutting a clean break?

Give PC Survey a try. Its a good and very inexpensive option for pure survey shops. I tried it and liked it, but since I also do engineering it didn'...

TrustNever trust a crazy person.One must be crazy to be a surveyor.So, ....never let them know your crazy.

When I bought my TPS 1203, it came with a 256 mb card and I was told by the Leica rep to not use anything bigger as it would slow things down. I see ...

Kinda sorta along the same lines. On a somewhat larger economics of scale.We were hired to perform retracement surveys of several townships. One in ...

Ask them if they have a fence. If they say yes, then tell them that is where the boundary is.If they say no, tell them to put up a fence, it will bec...