And I thought that I was a bitter clinger, refusing to change with the times.

I get the gist of most of your post, but take exception to this. He's doing a boundary survey, intending to stake a line.?ÿ There's no need for a sca...

@bill93 Yes, he leveled the instrument, and was very fast.?ÿ That and the fact that he set backsights with half-rotten old branches just pushed into ...

@mark-mayer I don't use that, but even so, don't think it'd be worth the cost to have full-blown ACAD for them.

Things like that are why I ditched the ICAD version and paid the extra for the embedded ACAD.?ÿ But that was early on, so maybe it's a lot better now....

@rover83 Yes, we're definitely a rare breed

But fighting and resisting is my go-to method, that always works

Is he out visiting the old Giant set?

@leegreen Come on, you're not new here? I can't believe that you can't believe that

I agree with Freeman, I'm thinking there's some confusion here. My thoughts on Land Court is avoid it if you can.?ÿ Don't go asking for them to get i...

Not surprised at all. Like the time there was a building addition that wasn't square to the existing building.?ÿ It was tied it in at one of the exit...

@bill93 I must've missed where he mentioned using this as his basis for elevation for his project?

@murphy Hmmm, not sure what a bkl is.?ÿ Breakline? Your example above looks like you're running 15 lines in a cross section.?ÿ That, makes my head h...

@skeeter1996 I get that.?ÿ Just saying, I'd expect that the responsibility to have a plan recorded would be on the parties involved, to hire the surv...

I learned that on my first construction layout project, set control points away from the site where you think none of the contractors will destroy it....

@skeeter1996 I hope that was part of the court order

@skeeter1996 That's what I figured.?ÿ Unless the surveyor was somehow a party to the action

@jim-in-az Also, did the court actually order the surveyor directly to prepare the plan, or were the land owners ordered to have it done??ÿ Seems odd...

@bstrand Yes, but how many numbered strings do you need to use??ÿ I mean, once you're done with a section of road, you can go back to using?ÿ BS TS...

@dmyhill Good points.?ÿ Within the site, as long as you're not encroaching on setbacks, it's not really surveying, but construction layout.?ÿ Depends...