@murphy What gives the surveyor justification to label this area as an access easement? Are you suggesting prescriptive rights have created this easem...

@dave-karoly What do you mean "for free". The guy donated 100 acres. The state made a trade of these services for those 100 acres. Certainly wasn't fr...

@santiago While the specs are much better. Someone new to leveling, without making any blunders, should be well within 0.10'. A myriad of small things...

@gary_g While it is laudable on your part to want to take responsibility for the deductible, your employer should have never allowed it. Owners take t...

I'm just guessing the floodplain information was developed using NGS benchmarks. So if I wanted to provide relevant elevations to the floodplain it wo...

How much tilt correction would have to be involved to be off several feet?

They are your employees. You are responsible for their actions and you are responsible for paying them. It you don't want to be responsible for both o...

@fset89 But it is a problem and that is why you have posted.

Just a scenario; you have a 10,000 acre ranch with 112 courses for the boundary. The ranch wants to know the boundary lines concerning a particular ad...

@jitterboogie Railroads were given similar checkerboard sections of land. What was the intent concerning the railroads? Why is it different from the i...

Second on the Nikon Nivo.

I think you have to note that it is flooded. ?????ÿ

@jitterboogie Most everywhere you do not have to have a surveyor to lay out construction. Anyone working for the construction company can do the layou...

It can be pretty simple. It is all angles and distances. Depending on how precise and how accurately you want to measure those angles and distances wi...

Your best learning will be done in the field with an experienced crew or surveyor willing to let you tag along. Since you will invariably impede their...

@ramses How do you adjust the bubble for different rod heights? I'm under the impression the bubble indicates the same regardless of the rod height. I...

@tfdoubleyou In Manhattan, NYC a tenth is an issue. In Manhattan, KS it likely is not. Judgement has to be used. There is not a chart that you can fol...

@tfdoubleyou If first a senior line is established, then junior monuments are placed on this senior line, they will always not be online. The line is ...

@dave-karoly Out of curiosity, if that verbiage is not sufficient, what would be necessary to grant, bargain, and convey easement rights only?

How can it be anymore clear, "It is further understood and agreed that this conveyance transfers only the right to make, construct and maintain such h...