It is difficult to find written information that covers every situation. The written Caltrans materials I quoted can be found here. LAND SURVEYS FOR R...

There is a rubbersheet routine, where as you can register your unreferenced image to controlling points. It will give you the residuals and the option...

I have in the past researched highway easements through the actual Grantor - Grantee books. Sometimes the easements would not be recorded until severa...

It was published by the Caltrans Office of Land Surveys as study material in the 1990's (I believe for their right of way agents). It was used in conj...

I'm no expert at these things...thats for sure.Seems to me like you are thinking about this R/W issue as if you were the DOT trying to assertain the e...

Here is the California DOT's opinion on issues very similiar to what you describe. It is interesting to note that they mention the fact that a prescri...

Remember when delineating a DOT prescriptive easement on your record of survey, there is a big difference between a "prescriptive easement claim" and ...

Utilities - I'll bet it's either a blanket easement, or no easement recorded.

I don't know what state your in, but this is an interesting read regardless.Road Law Handbook It left me wishing there was a version written for Calif...

The iPhone will geo-tag every photo if you have your privacy settings set accordingly. The Lat. Long is written into the EXIF header information. No n...

From what I can tell, if you perform site design you will benefit the most from this new software.The Raster Design software has features that a surve...

The way they are pushing these upgrades on us rubs me the wrong way.Right or wrong, here is a letter I sent to the licensing department. I should hear...

It also adds the ability to make images transparent.Since I cannot access Raster Design from within a Carlson drawing session, I do not use it very mu...

Imagine if they notified you that they were switching you to a different software suite that will cost you more money unless you contact them and opt ...

It rubbed me the wrong way that they choose to utilize an "Opt out" vs. "Opt in" method.This is backwards to every other vendor/client relationship we...

My suggestion.Open both drawings.In Drawing "B" CNTRL +ACNTRL +CCNTRL +TAB (to switch to Drawing "A")Right Click -> Clipboard -> Paste to origin...

The construction of a road back in the day consisted only of clearing brush and boulders. Typically there was a route survey performed which was prese...

What does the County claim?County Surveyors have the benefit of being involved in resolving these right of way issues over and over. Many questions pr...