I also customize. Once long ago, I had a lady complain that an item in my legend was not on my map.

Here in NY it would be against the NYSAPLS cannon of ethics to supplant another surveyor actively engaged (as you are).

Sounds like they are following the Autodesk route, hence why I have never used either product nor ever will.

Sounds like the same guy I had to call. He had no clue what I was talking about and had a holler than thou attitude with me. I finally asked him which...

@williwaw well back in the day we would put a can of something or other on the exhaust manifold. Worked great except for when we forgot about it or f...

Two things that "help" for me. The first is the hardest to do with deadlines but works the best. 1. Write the description and check it. Then wait abo...

Well in the old days they use to call the ship mooring lines "rat lines". Today they put large circular disks on them like you would on your birdfeede...

disregard above. I just checked two of my chains and both have tallies after 10 links

the giveaway that it is an engineer's chain was the four pointed tally = 66' which obviously would not be on a surveyors chain

Any time we used deflection angles it was in relation to the foresight (left or right) Also made it easy to compute offsets to the line you were runni...

just this afternoon had a call from a homeowner asking if I could do his survey. Upon gathering the specifics, I found out he needs a proposed plot pl...

Personally I would no sooner outsource my drafting than my fieldwork. Both are equally important to me.

I've always been kind of partial to this older version of "topographic map art" ?ÿ

@bushaxe ha just watched that again the other night

@jph unusual thing was it all came down within 12hrs

@jph 27" for me, but less than 10 miles away 40"

I probably should have included the pic before I started clearing the snow off.

@dmyhill the Adirondack park is the largest in the continental US

Mostly woods for me so the smallest lightest atv is the way to go.