Tom Adams, post: 385495, member: 7285 wrote: It shouldn't be one or the other. You need a well-rounded education in the way to do math without a comp...

flyin solo, post: 385493, member: 8089 wrote: i would posit that some component of the preponderance of wacky street layout is coincidental to the ris...

I was taught many many labs of classic methods. Sun shots, chaining, stadia, etc, etc. After being in the field for a while I wish we'd learned more...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 385458, member: 291 wrote: Greg, there are "No Pat Answers" you simply have to know them all, and apply the best, or most pro...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 385452, member: 291 wrote: What I'm arguing is that you cannot properly perform a retracement survey, until you "feel the pai...

Historical facts can be very useful in retracement. For example knowing that sometimes chains got broken and were still used for laying out lots - th...

Tom Adams, post: 385426, member: 7285 wrote: well....you made me look up "articling student"........good job. Could you imagine an engineer who has a...

A Harris, post: 385413, member: 81 wrote: Trust me, you must know the fundamentals and history of any profession to truly understand its future before...

Scott Ellis, post: 385429, member: 7154 wrote: Now I feel the need to look up "articling student". I agree, we studied the fundamentals but actually ...

Holy Cow, post: 385402, member: 50 wrote: No clients involved. Simply go and do it to have an appreciation of those who made the footprints we are to...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 385337, member: 291 wrote: UNLESS they Survey for 3 days with a Rittenhouse compass, and chain.And, then perform a retracemen...

not my real name, post: 385050, member: 8199 wrote: I am surveying for a client whose land was previously surveyed in 1974. The map of the survey show...