Just stating the facts. Not intended as political.

It's that feeling of satisfaction you get every time you recover a "NOT THERE". A silent affirmation that you are a true professional and not just so...

Once upon a time I was creating a route map for a six-mile road improvement project. We were asked to identify land usage and buildings within 100 fe...

The one constant is to never use never.

Agreed, but, with further caveats. First, one must even think enough to do a complete search for where monuments may have been set by surveyors over ...

When using Total Station equipment it is common to set temporary markers to use as turning points that allow clear viewing of the final corners. Thes...

Neighbors like that usually come right out and demand what you are doing surveying in their neighborhood. Overhead, clear sewer main is the typical r...

Lost out on buying 80 acres about 40 years ago because an aged mother living in a distant nursing home had given all eight children (most in their 60'...

Reviewed one last week that had the range off by 36 miles, putting it in the wrong county.

A tombstone. Sort of tossed in a ditch. Learned later there was an error on it and a new one had been installed in the cemetery down the road a few ...

Was the first clue the use of the term "leaps and bounds"?

Daughter number two is now a resident of the Tampa, FL area and sent the attached photo from her new home. Why would anyone want to get a Florida sur...

Many years ago a fellow called me wanting a price to "lower" a similar monument that had been set by the DOT "in the middle of my yard". The fool was...

The most important thing is to produce something that any halfway intelligent surveyor can follow for the near future with a high degree of certainty....