Also, how do you "correct" a deed? If landowner "A" sell to "B" with a description, and twenty years later you find the description to be "wrong", you...

Google Earth Pro is now free, it has option to import dgn files. I would guess that you have to have drawings in UTM projection.

As boundary surveyors our primary duty is not to measure, it is to locate. The measurments are only tools to point to the location. Our purpose is to ...

Your comment about what instruments are used being related to accuracy is all wrong. That refers to precision.All current technology offers better acc...

This is a severe mischaracterization of U.S boundary practice.but correct me if I am wrong?if you discover 2 monuments that are not consistent with th...

Yep. Radically different circumstances allow for radically different procedures.the way I see it, as surveyors, our work is to measure accurately the ...

If the position of the line always remained to be ascertained by measurement alone, the result would be that it would not be a fixed boundary, but wou...

Then what do you do when people have built improvements based on the monuments? Keep making them move a fence every 10 years when a 'better' measureme...

I have given up doing maintenance work on my house and have hired other people to do it for us. My wife said that it was cheaper that way. Most of the...

Better get that GPS readjusted because it is more likely wrong than the guy in the 1880's.all other field of work accepts that their field of work kee...

You likely will end up in court if you report that section as 640 acres.I would like to see a case where say a 1 acre lot surveyed in 1800s, re-measur...

Let me get this, so if a survey was done in 1800s by someone who calls himself a surveyor but really was just a helper who was tasked to bury the monu...

how high are the trees that a GPS point was established in that spot? Or would it be even useful for future observations if it will be under the canop...

Wouldn't a scale bar with say 10 ft markings on the drawing solve that problem?

PPK is same as RTK except for the corrections sent from base to rover. No minimum occupation time or to put it another way, you need same 1 second of ...

Just start logging kinematic on rover usually at 1 sec interval. Or if there is no such option then log using static. Important thing is that both rec...

Even using a scanner, you would only get the 'bottom' sides of the trunks. Not sure how you would position your scanner to get the 'top' sides of the ...