> Too bad the contractor wasn't using a pipe laser, he may have caught the bust on his own and it wouldn't have mattered. If I was the contractor a...

"WS" Seems more like the abbreviations often made up by Assessors when transcribing a deed description by their own form of shorthand into their asses...

As an absoute minimum, the surveyor needs to check between the control that will be used to ensure that the site control is consistent among itself.If...

Elected PositionIn CA, the office of County Surveyor is an elected position (by initial definition in the Govt Code). The law also states that the Co...

> > Does this municipality have an amateur firefighter as Fire Chief ?> > > I do not think that you would find a Fire Chief on the face...

I agree. Perfect closure with a mistated distance which has no effect on the closed figure.Consider yourself fortunate that a call to or along a part...

That's the same take I had on the article and cited cases.

I think it helps the student to be able to see how the course materials get applied in real life and so it all makes more sense. So yes, I agree that...

Field Checks!Radial stakeout certainly can be as accurate as setting on the corners and staking by direct measure from the corners, but the latter met...

Zoom in on some of those light lines. The terrain through them does not change from that adjacent to them. The lines are also very uniform in width,...

Like Jim said, calling the monuments is an exception rather than the normal practice here. That's unfortunate because sometime later, some measuremen...

Pardon my ignorance, butToes pointed forward and on a well defined front end of the footpad = bear.Toes around the front of a footpad that is somewhat...

Mr. Fleming> Apparently, a lot of surveyors practice Omphaloskepsis ;-)And some collect lint too.I learn something new because of your posts at lea...

"You got paid the first time, didn't you?"It's incredible but quite believable that a RE agent would have this attitude.I've seen RE agents sell a hou...

That's a new one on me too. I don't recall ever seeing a map or document with the treatment as shown in Jim's post. What's the purpose? Is it as a ...

The Irony!>"A more entertaining discussion would be; why does anybody care if surveying is classified as a profession? I would venture to guess thi...

Statute of LimitationI think what Larry is saying is that it matters where there are not such stautes specific to surveying, but more general in natur...

> Ummmm..., what is this "Retirement" you speak of?That's when you take the truck to Les Schwab because the old tires wore out. You tell them "I n...