I'm extremely thankful to Carlson for providing a product that's let me avoid having to evolve with LDD into C3D.

It depends. Would you be coming in as a junior LS to the senior guy who makes all the rules and policies for the company, that probably led to the le...

When I worked for myself, I used to get the basic info and tell them I'd call back. Then I'd do about 5-10 min of online research to come up with a r...

I was a lot tougher when I was younger, and wore shorts almost all the time when it was 70 or above, even in thorns and poison ivy. Actually, I'm not...

Maybe it's one of those engineer-designed subdivision layouts, where there's a 0.21' tangent between curves.

billvhill, post: 426896, member: 8398 wrote: On my way home today, I saw a survey crew locating a point with RTK on the shoulder of the highway. I sto...

linebender, post: 426660, member: 449 wrote: There may be a good reason why you can't find a case where parking on a neighbors land ripened into adver...

spledeus, post: 426570, member: 3579 wrote: Adverse Possession = OCEANHOpenContinuousExclusiveAdverseNotoriousHostileColor of Title is a plus and vali...

Lake/pond properties are a joy to survey

He's wrong. Where's he getting this opinion from?

Figured you'd like that. I've told your story a bunch of times, over beers with other surveyors, and they all agree that you got shafted. What a jok...

It's strange how in my early survey life, it seemed that the supervising LS's always looked for reasons to reject other found monuments. Now, I almos...

Re-load your working profile, maybe

Don't complain or take part in any bitch-sessions, for at least the first few months. Sometimes when you're new, it seems like everyone loves each ot...

Stephen Johnson, post: 425484, member: 53 wrote: Actually If I do it properly and don't get lazy on my selection of PDH's, I can do it without spendin...

I'm with JB. I had a similar situation which was determined to be two side-lines by one town official before construction, only to have it kicked bac...

As Squowse wrote about the compounding errors above, moving it every time may create a larger absolute error of closure. So which is more representat...

lmbrls, post: 425289, member: 6823 wrote: Is the objective to run a traverse along the tops of your tripods or the points on the ground?Both, or neith...

Did the county give a reason why they won't sign the adjustment/easement plan simultaneously? I mean, is there a reason, other than their lack of com...

I'm sure you're within the law to set something in the driveway apron, since it's within the ROW. I'm also sure that you'd be liable if something you...