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...

I'm equipped for one-man crews; what I tend to do is send a two-man crew to a site and have them split apart (i.e. for an ALTA, one guy locating curb ...

Years ago (when I was a lowly survey tech), I did this just as a series of 8.5x11 exhibits on a 30x42 sheet arranged as a flow chart. It was for an a...

Rob, If you want to borrow a copy of Henry Sipe’s Compass Land Surveying let me know and I'll bring it to the MSS PAC Fundraiser next week

I just mean someone that is further up the managerial hierarchy than the PLS and exercises the latitude that typically comes with those higher ranking...

What sort of opinion guys had about PLS having an unlicensed surveyors in senior positionsDefine 'senior positions'. I can think of a lot of cases wh...

That's where I go after sorting through a particularly sloppy Schedule B, Part II

Builds character.