I was referring to the subdivision boundary only, not lot lines. Is there a difference? I draw out the plat exactly as the stamping surveyor has it sh...

Whatever it is identified as it certainly doesn’t qualify as a survey in any area i work in.You are correct, by definition, a "record of survey" in WA...

Someone mentioned putting calculated-not-visited notes on surveys. While somehow still allowed in WA, this practice is not allowed in ID. I personally...

I prefer the MAX/iMAX corrections over VRS. My main gripe about VRS is all of the ‘virtual’ CORS you end up with. iMAX gives you a vector from an actu...

it technically causes a map check report to fail How so? N80E is exactly the same bearing as S80W. On a plat there is no single direction of a line be...

You only label everything NE or NW if you want to do it right. then I changed places of employment... And it is far more random at the new place, and ...

So, what kicks of a revisit?If the nature of the monument has not changed, and it hasn't moved, and if it was located under the direction of the perso...

This map shows lots being created without the benefit of a survey, and monuments, hopefully only the monuments that were from the previous surveys tha...

thebionicman: Washington State allows record monuments on maps, but I won’t do it on a filed map. bstrand: I think if I were to do this I probably wou...

Every surveyor in our area that I know of turns angles to the right. Before I had robots turning "sets", I would turn what we called "horizons". Acc...

Could a surveyor create a map and record showing the results of their research? Isn't that the question? As long as they explained what, how, etc I do...

Is This Fair?Nothing is fair. So, no. Is This Legal? Must be, it is there in the law. The point is that if I told a farmer that I could get down to an...

In balance ‘tight’ is a subjective term. In the 70s we were ecstatic to close within a few tenths breaking out a quarter. We can nail it within hundre...

I think most surveyors in this state would view that that as creating an unnecessary pin farm mess, myself included. A pin farm is where you have a bu...

Are you saying that the lidar processing uses those little pictures to do the processing?

I am very confused. If I was asked to divide property at the toe of a road I would do this: Walk along the toe, setting rebar and cap at agreed interv...

I would make a caveat to this: If there is a new realization that occurs between now and 2026 when the (2022) datum is put into effect, then it may be...

Similarly, Washington State statute law dictated the use of the US Foot – until recently. It was changed to the Int’l foot a couple years back in anti...

Carlson has this download:

They are hemispheres painted blue... this video might help