There was actually a follow-up story posted today:

Here in NYC we typically show lot areas to the nearest 0.1 of a square foot, if we were to round to the nearest square foot we'd be getting calls from...

@ars-mine-surveyor Do you hold record dimensions over natural and artificial monuments? How about extrinsic evidence or occupation? Also, which reco...

Carlson has the Deed Correlation command under the Survey menu that does exactly what you are asking for.

As a surveyor who specializes in NYC surveying, I'm not exactly sure how to process this.?ÿ Hmm...

90% of our work is local coordinates, GPS doesn't work too well in Manhattan.?ÿ Outside of transportation related projects, most projects end up being...

Easements with vertical components are pretty common in NYC.?ÿ The language is usually something along the lines of "Above a lower limiting plane of e...

Canon makes some nice plotters as well, we recently replaced an older HP plotter with a Canon IPF780, very pleased with it so far.

We get asked for 10B in NYC all the time for both party and independent walls.

If you are running Carlson you can change the coordinate order when importing a text file to swap the northings and elevations without having to actua...

I've attached a copy of the Manhattan benchmark listing, all elevations are in Manhattan Highway Datum. Attached files 429A.pdf (86.3 KB)&...

Perhaps an hour. We were staking new curbs for a gas station, finished up at the end of the day, packed up the truck to head home and I proceeded to ...

I don't particularly care as long as you guys actually get the notes back to the office in a timely fashion.

That's the problem, there's only one file, the .survey, and we can't open it to export a different format. The only desktop software we have that can...