Good for You!!Hopefully you just made it simpler for your colleagues to record a lawfully recordable document in the future.Fortunately it seems to ha...

> A scaled distance off a GIS map that was generated by photography 20 something years ago just does not work even considering that the original wo...

I had a conversation on this subject with a fellow surveyor at the state organization's annual golf and picnic this past weekend.He was discussing a r...

> Well, isn't your real beef with incompetent surveyors? Your summation is probably a more accurate assessment of the situation.However, I find the...

Thanks, very helpfulNothing wrong with being labeled "university smart". It is an excellent starting point for professional growth.From this follow-u...

Although it has been a very long time ago,I expect that things have not changed too much since when I was in college.At that time, I took a graduate l...

This one is easyJim,I would personally have no issue with such a reg as stated with one caveat - if any pin "to be set" is not consistent with the sta...

This one is easy> My plats don't! In conformance with hundreds of years of surveying practice and legal principles my plats/maps are records of wha...

Thanks for the replies guys.> opinion is worthless:good: So true.

I mostly agree with Kris Morgan.The physical marks on the ground should constitute the survey as that is what will be used by property owners. There ...

Look on the bright side of it.That requirement makes you get an EIN. You now can use that number instead of your personal SS number when filling out ...

Thanks for the replies guys.Exactly Larry. The 'reasoning' I have been presented with is "they didn't ask me to do a survey - just to mark the corner...

That hurts just reading about it.Probably not funny for you (even in retrospect), but pretty hilarious as a 'things that happen when surveying' story.

Thanks for the replies guys.:good: times a millionthe definitions at the beginning of the standards of practice make that pretty clear to me

Tom, That 'wiggle room' in 2 and 3 is actually the impetus for the discussions. There was actually an office with an internal disagreement that sough...

Thanks for the replies guys.From conversations and experiences with other surveyors in the area, there seems to be two camps of thought on some of the...

Well Done> > I will be generous and accept that your GPS points had 2cm precision. That is an allowance of 0.066' per point. Squaring that, mult...