For the record, I would probably kick and scream if I had to work on a road project with spiral curves...especially if there were structures that were...

Should be in meters as well.... I have never designed or staked a job with spiral curves, but, it ends up being spiral after 25 years and it drives be...

Surprised nobody has mentioned this...EVERYBODY knows that property corners are virtual magnets for utility companies.It's just some sort of voodoo ma...

Within a monumented ROW

I have found that nearly all road alignments start off being constructed with tangents and simple curves. Over time, they end up being more of a spira...

What?! No attorneys involved?

Wouldn't this be a considered a boundary line adjustment? Do most states have a procedure for these?

Here is a screen shot of a map I generated back in 2003 (I may have been using Pacsoft at the time).The yellow lines are the as-built contours. The li...

Yup, it's shading between isopach contours.

Dan, what the routine is doing is creating a surface model, where the elevations represent the difference between the two surfaces.If you contour that...

Is that an original saying? Haven't heard that one before, but I bet it sounds good during a heated debate.

Prevailing wage jobs get additional scrutiny by the feds and the states. The agency managing the contract is usually subject to several audits for 3 y...

The article reads as if one condition is always persistent - a dispute. It has long been established that it is in the public's best interest to dilig...

As described in 1886... I suspect that the quad map is compiled from data of various dates and qualities.

Could it be that your gun was getting a return on a street sign or the reflective centerline striping in the background? When we first purchased our T...

Have you watched any documentaries on the filming of the movie "Midnight Rider?" In that movie, the Director waived safety requirements in order to "g...