Duane:good:

I proclaim nothing in life. I merely stated that reproducing bearings is as simple as locating monuments shown on a plan, and rotating your work onto...

> Okay, then. You need at least three called for monuments to re-establish the bearing system. Got it.No, you go ahead, and determine what you ne...

No

> > If you locate two called-for monuments, you've reproduced the bearing system.> > Even if one of the called for monuments has been move...

> Well, JPH. In the above 12' strip example, I guess you'd go ahead and turn the angle off of those two axles 12.005 feet apart and run 2000' to th...

If you locate two called-for monuments, you've reproduced the bearing system.

> Who mentioned anything about State Plane Coordinates for each and every job? That's what started all this crap - no pretending it didn't now.

> What is surfacing from the "basis for bearing" discussion, as well as many others, is debate about business and professionalism.> > Some po...

> The economy has left us with fewer people, and now with more work than people.> > So, a senior project surveyor ends up in the field with m...

No.I would never grab a plan, and think that I can occupy a monument, and then run a bearing to monument the line or corner, solely because I'm on the...

I don't know if it was me, but I agree. I don't give a rat's ass if the bearings vary 20 deg from magnetic or actual, or true, etc. As long as the r...

I didn't take it that the monuments were staked incorrectly - just that Kent's calc'ed bearing didn't match the plan bearing, supposedly on the same s...

> So you think your client only wants the plat to buy the house, and once he buys it, he no longer cares where his property line is?I never said th...

> Surveying is not the only use for a plat. It can be used for construction, taxation, hiking, gardening, laying out amateur radio antennas, parkin...

> It was common practice in upstate NY for many surveyors to just assume a cardinal direction and go. It confused the heck out of landowners who as...

I've got to agree with you guys.I really don't care what the basis of bearings is - I'm not going to base any of the lines just on a calc'ed bearing o...

"Surveying without a license, would you say so?":good: I always wonder how so many fences get put up without the lot being staked out by a land survey...

I'm never going with the latest release of any software. It's better to wait till the last build, and all the bugs have been discovered by users and ...