And, if I can gently suggest it, all of the topics are covered in past posts. I would suggest searching them first, and then ask questions for clarifi...

There is a lot going on in that question, but perhaps I can attempt to summarize the questions and we if these are indeed your questions, perhaps get ...

People often forget how much averaging it takes to get angles accurate to the instrument spec. The definition isn’t intuitive.And...(I was told) that ...

Star*Net is not expensive in the scope of things, certainly not if you are talking about buying a 1" robot for kicks and giggles. Running SN through a...

Our published subdivision labels of 1 second and .01′ for everything is a fantasy already; there’s no need to make up imaginary numbers.Had a bearing ...

The <b style="">newspaper <b style="">quoted the surveyor...I think I found the source of the error. No one despises journalists more than...

Thanks for the reply. Reading all the replies makes me want to talk with whoever is in charge of the project.Had a guy ask for control...he wanted to ...

When you publish your work i.e. a subdivision plat, your are claiming that information shown to be true. If your are not going to claim 267.2589 then ...

One guy is concerned about the possibility of going to court over setting a property corner that wasn’t set right because we only use a 5” instrument....

For setting property corners a 5″ gun is more than sufficient. Also, remember that to come close to the guns performance you will need top quality tri...

So he trusts cad to generate the right coordinates but not to label the line correctly? Well, the drafting process can leave incorrect labels, depend...

Cant comment on NZ. Here, I need my professional license to make the business work. (I am one of the few surveyors that would present a cogent case fo...

Easy enough to just say it was accidental, as in many cases with machinery. Ok, you talked me out of criminal charges. Make civil, and even if acciden...

...I also understand why people scale about a point central to the project and don’t truncate. Doing so leaves a survey that will fit to GIS planning ...

Has anyone ever been fined ever in the history of monuments? Make it $25,000 and enforce it. But I digress

This old surveyor was including grid coordinates 24 years ago to aid in recovery.Never used to do anything with SPC. Purposely kept off of it. Moved ...

resolves you of any responsibility Did you mean "...revolves you..."

regardless of the size of the lot. You want to put a 40' wide house on a 50' lot with 5' setback from the line and minimum 15' from another house (I h...