Evidently the "Green Acres" reference slipped by you.?ÿ

@holy-cow?ÿ Tell the city to stick their csm (whatever that may be) where the sun don't shine.?ÿ Or leave their csm expenses and increased property t...

Such as "the old Haney place".

First, the OP should allow for the fact that this is a global website, and there are as many local regulations and acronyms as there are locals. So pl...

I'm currently working for a local city engineering department. The department has about 30 technical employees and, I think, 5 open, unfilled position...

Accepting what is available isn't the same as getting what you want.

Almost everyone claims that they do it. But it is super easy to get complacent about really looking at the values.?ÿ?ÿ

That is always a good idea, but don't be overanxious about it. You can recreate the fbk file from the raw data file and/or reexport the raw data from ...

Probably. See Craig1971s thread today about transitioning to C3d. An fbk file is a txt file, so it is easy to edit. It will contain the station setup ...

@craig1971?ÿ If you import points to a survey database you can only manipulate them using the survey database functions. You can't do it in CAD, usin...

There seems to be a shortage of Surveyors and Civil Engineers these days. That is true for a lot of other skills as well. It seems to me that for a lo...

How were you manipulating field data in LDD??ÿ ?ÿI've never used the functions of CAD (Softdesk, LDT, C3d) to reduce field?ÿ observations to coordinat...

I must admit that there was a Sokkia at my very first survey job (1989) that couldn't survive the rain.?ÿ It remains the only instrument of that brand...

@nate-the-surveyor?ÿ A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness ... ?ÿ

Does someone have the xref'd drawing open? Or was it last shut down improperly??ÿ?ÿ

There a circumstances where buyers and sellers want a property to be of an exact dimension. How do they do that??ÿ?ÿ Suppose you are the owner of a p...

Surveyors have no problem with understanding the rounding "error". Trouble comes when folks like attorneys, paralegals, real estate agents, and the ge...

@fairbanksls?ÿ That's what she said!

For a period of time I was doing construction layout for several contractor clients. They were not asking me to bid on jobs, but they would ask for co...