That's pretty much my practice, though instead of XREF I just keep the record parcels on a separate layer (or more than one layer when things are espe...

If it was simply a matter of aliquot parts, I might do it on grid. But this job entails dozens of parcels and exceptions, with a lot of oddball beari...

I've used it for modifying some AutoLISP functions, as well as generating g-code for some CNC machining projects. It does require some handholding --...

Just signed up. Thanks!

This sounds like a very well-thought-out approach. Nice work!

NONE indicates that there no weather dome added to the antenna, i.e. it's the antenna as it came from the factory.   Not sure what's going on...

It's been that way in CA for my entire career, so I've never seen a successful AP claim.

I just ran across a fun bit of P-K trivia, courtesy of Wikipedia: in 1943 Grumman began phasing out production of the TBF Avenger torpedo bomber so t...

Can't connect from here, either.

A contract with an ambiguous scope is a recipe for financial loss. If the client doesn't adequately define the scope, it's incumbent upon the surveyo...

I support the decision to change -- there's no good reason for you to bear the cost of maintaining this site. The market will decide if the site surv...

It depends. FEMA periodically audits local agency records, and once a local floodplain manager contact me years after I filed an EC to correct a perc...

Lead wool -- it looks like steel wool, but is made of lead -- is used by plumbers to seal cast-iron pipe joints. (It probably has other applications ...

This is a photo of a lot corner I marked a couple of years ago. The point landed right on the edge of a new sidewalk, so I couldn't set a rebar or a ...

Ask Dave Karoly -- he's a bit of a collector.

It was a long time ago -- at least 15 years -- but a Trimble dealer once charged me $250 in a failed attempt to extract a data file from a 4000SSi tha...

Just for fun, I ran the points through Star*Net, holding the radius fixed and using the instrument settings for my GeoMax Zoom 80. I came up with a s...

I was contacted privately about the same thing, but when I offered to help he replied that he decided to head into the office to do it himself.