Still waiting on my roasted Llama.

3. Do you do your own research in house or order title work? There is a great quote (paraphrasing) by Don Wilson, maybe in "Boundary Retracement" or "...

Had a drafter named Kipling who never had that problem

I treat them as closing corners...until it's time for them to not be closing corners

About twenty years ago I was at a large firm and walked into another surveyor's office. There was a mylar subdivision plat on his desk ready for final...

While there has been a lot of very good suggestions, none of it is very useful if the button pusher doesn’t know what he or she should be measuring to...

When I took the Maryland test in 2003 I was exempt from fundamentals, took Principle and Practice, Maryland Law and Maryland Engineering and I could u...

so far it takes the cake for being the least applicable to land surveying Spoken like someone what hasn't take the Delaware exam - that was basically ...

TLDR: The sale of your voluntarily supplied personal data. Well, if OPM is doing this, I at least hope they are using the ill-gotten proceeds to pay d...

First some context… I currently work for a 50 +- person woman owned firm that has traditionally been in the transportation construction side of the en...

"you train people for the next level above where they currently are" My cousin told me this was explained to him in Marine Corps OCS as "Always know y...

Maybe a category named "Dog Chasing Its Own Tail" where threads could be moved to once the discussion in the original post degrades to mindless back a...

The thing to remember about Stegner's historical books is that he was primarily a fiction writer. So, he's at his best when describing action, and te...

Same. And some of the jurisdictions go so far as to have the owner's signed statement on the plat contain language similar to "The owner shall record...

Given that this was my first ancestor on this side of the pond, I'm all in favor of Virginia recovering her lost land. William Powell (Virginia coloni...

I was talking to the head of a large county department of public works about using SLAM for environmental surveys. Scan a wooded parcel, build a grou...

I once described development related surveying to engineering company business development types who had no idea what we did as: "We create a digital...

"I’ve known a few who tried to leverage the situation just to add another resource for income that couldn’t survey at all." That may be what they say ...

The final resting place of a lot of recognizable names Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Wikipedia

When I was a crew chief, I set a subdivision worth of wood stakes at "approximate corners" for the builder to use for sales purposes (final corners to...