If it's a grid/ground difference, your boss is having you add error into your network with this practice (GPS producing grid coords, TS or DC scale fa...

Lurker, land butcher and Peter have it. It's called the Doctrine of Merger, which states that any other land rights you may have had merge into the b...

  Jim, thanks for that. I thought about a cycle error. I've encountered it once or twice, but not in the last 40 years. With a cycle error, ...

Drill steels were once commonly used as monuments in N ID. I find them on about 1 in 8 to 10 projects in rural areas.

It was a big deal for Caltrans RW, particularly on limited-access freeways. It was also a big deal for a few county and local governments. You seem ...

I was looking forward to another interesting story from Uncle Paden, but the link went to a thread started by McMillimeter, which was entertaining in ...

Wow, I just addressed the same question with regard to local reviews of subdivision maps in another thread.   No, I wouldn't make up a non-ex...

The similar issue I deal with every so often, due to high turnover at local planning department, is when they try to require me to rewrite an aliquot ...

When I was in my 20s, I worked a few days that were below -20 F (not counting wind chill) but we weren't using electronics. That would have been a li...

I was once chewed out by an attorney who told me that I was going to cost her client hundreds of thousands of dollars if I didn't deliver the map befo...

Unless they're wasting a bunch of your time with estimate requests for projects that never materialize, I wouldn't see it as something to get upset ab...

That page from the K & E Paragon manual posted by Norman OK doesn't translate to a Dietzgen transit for declination. I also have a 6100 and afte...

  Not sure that anyone said there was anything wrong with technical work. Good for your son. You should be very proud of him and it's evident...

Peter Lothian gave great advice. However, reading that there were so many surveyors involved and none have provided you with results that satisfy yo...

I get about 1 of these per month, though the language isn't as stilted. I replied to a couple of them in case they were legit. The last one, I looke...

When I was in business in CA, I once started a project for a licensed contractor without having a written contract in place and without first collecti...

If your even older than the photo indicates, then my assumption is even more to the point about the decrease in survey training for CE degree students...

Judging by your avatar photo, you're of an age that those going to school for civil engineering when you were college age likely took 2 or 3 survey cl...

I get a 50% retainer and make sure the check clears before starting. That seems to cut way down on the deadbeats. Only got fully stiffed twice, bot...