thebionicman, post: 441521, member: 8136 wrote: Dr. Elgin used to do a course in Missouri that was almost exclusively PLSS. If I recall correctly it w...

I had prepared a whole presentation but in the end decided to just talk to them. I spoke at two universities in Texas. One has a land surveying specia...

David Livingstone, post: 392680, member: 431 wrote: I'm good at ID's for trees. There is the kind that lose their leaves and the kind that don't.Illi...

Holy Cow, post: 392505, member: 50 wrote: My thought on the whole identifying trees thing relative to site plans is WHO REALLY CARES. Size matters. ...

I saw an app not too long ago that said it would, using cell phone GPS, allow a land owner to locate their property corners based off the file that th...

We had a similar discussion in our office recently regarding when a subdivision exists. Our situation is different. A landowner requested a boundary a...

Greg Rodger, post: 385499, member: 11989 wrote: In a perfect world we would learn everything in 4 years and be job ready. As is I have yet to use sun...

Daniel Ralph, post: 385371, member: 8817 wrote: Lately, I have been calling surveyors and asking why they did what they did rather than just saying no...

I was lucky - I was taught surveying fundamentals in college with a transit and chain, balancing traverses by hand, no computer. The RPLS who taught t...

party chef, post: 381357, member: 98 wrote: How do you feel about tree ID by Surveyors?I have seen some shops that shy away from making ID beyond Coni...