> Based on some of the 1890 - 1920 work I've run into, I'd add "compass and pacing" to the list.I've also found, lets say, less than stellar measur...

You're not known for paying public employees well up there. The staring salary for assistant district attornies in Massachusetts is less what the cour...

My favorites are:Someone asks if they can walk between the gun and the prism. You tell them sure, then just as the cross your line of sight you say "y...

I'm a young feller for a surveyor- 51 😉 but when I moved from being a crew chief at a small company into the office our field equipment was a Sokkia...

Hard to give any definitive answers without knowing where you plan to work or what type of work you plan on doing.But....two words of advice: demo uni...

>This is about a 125 sq. ft. difference. FWIW - where I work the size of a permitted building on a commercially zoned property ranges from a FAR (f...

Uh oh!

This story shall the good man teach his son;And National Land Surveyors' Day shall ne’er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it s...

Usually there is a provision in the local zoning ordinance, or in state law, that when a property is rezoned the owner must be notified by certified m...

Municipal air freshener dispenser. It's how they get that clean evergreeny scent that the PNW is know for. 😀

It may be just that I find myself growing more curmudgeonly by the day, but at first glance this strikes me as a solution in search of a problem.

DISCLAIMER - it's been ten years since I took the exam, but to be contrarian (and speaking as someone from a colonial state who had no PLSS background...