There is a township corner. In 1979 I went with a helper and set a brass cap for it. Then in the mid 1990's we had a boundary and located it again. It...

GPS is changing my expectations. We keep returning to old monuments and seeing 1cm or less. We check DOT control and see 1/2cm or less. We are also fi...

Here's where I got mine: I have the LUKA and pair it with Trimble base. I don't know anything much about their software as I download it into TBC...

PC located the E1/4, the N1/16 on the east Section, and the CN1/16. The E1/4 was .02' from the calculated position using new tweaked 2011 coordinates,...

A long time ago we would pick a NGS monument to fix with state plane then create a scale factor between it and the nearest NGS monument that would cor...

Yes, they multiply grid coordinates by the project scale factor to produce surface coordinates. These of course aren't calculated for each point, a pr...

Standard findings for every retracement of an old deed. If I find one without gaps created by only the metes, it will be the first one.  

Those plats are from 1982 and earlier. There isn't any chance they would have an NAD83 coordinate shown. If they did show a coordinate it would be an ...

The way to do it is thus: Go to the field and survey the points with either instruments tied to a known Geographic point or with GPS. If you want to...

The coordinate calculation sheet was from 1968. The survey plat is 1996. Are you wanting to use NAD27 coordinate values?  

Ok, I've had these five conservation exclusions changed now about 4 times. So glad I've simplified them. Three are rectangles, one is a parallelo...

145d47'56"+0d41'19"=146d29'15"  

Ha, fortunately I'm not hired with this one. They wanted me to "explain" why my ROS isn't in the "correct" location where the GIS shows it. Classic...

Deeds are an interesting subject in some areas. The RR locally is shown as granted on GLO records in the 1880's to 1890. But they didn't define the RR...

As Jim said above almost all older RR right of ways were taken as simple curves. Not all, but mostly that's how it was done. Then maps (Val maps) were...

It was very visible here: Then last night it was to also be seen, but SWMBO and I went out and not much of anything was visible when we looked. F...

@holy-cow From what I understand these transactions all happen faceless. No one sees the "buyer" all that has to happen is to create some fraud doc...