Well, the math doesn't lie, it's just math. You can't feel it, you can't touch it, it makes a terrible monument. 😉    

There comes a time when proration has to be used. The rules for that are clear. Unfortunately, it's often used when it shouldn't be used. Lost ...

A math solution is an absurd solution. I've done plenty of them, but consider the implications. A deck of cards has 52 distinct cards. How many dif...

@gary_g Math ends up being a scourge in surveying when its misused. I think maybe because it's the easy thing.

The first sentence is one where I have some disagreement with Lucas. For the second one, the original monument has to be proven as original, withou...

@pls8xx The link takes you to page 1 and 2 of the publication or page 9 and 10 (I think) of the PDF where Lucas discusses the pin cushion effect. I...

There is not right with every monument, there is only one corner position. The surveyor needs to use his expertise, experience and knowledge to resolv...

Let me be the contrarian and say: "setting more monuments obscures the truth"  

Read Jeff Lucas's paper uploaded above. He expresses it better than I do. Putting a cloud on landowner's title isn't a trivial act. Also, how m...

Looks like a couple I posted  

  Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!  

The "sacredness" of original boundary markers is an ancient concept. It's so ancient that it was laid out in the bible and even when Deuteronomy 19-14...

Hired to do a boundary. Part of it is: One corner, one monument. Make it so. Figure out all the clutter and clean it up. You don't work for...

It must be almost 30 years since I called that number. Maybe it was a different number then. There is this disembodied voice counting down the time, y...

Accurate time, accurate location, both were difficult in those days. We would plot our location and scale it off a quad sheet. The time was always...

I haven't seen it. I never got to within 10 arc seconds. A minute yes. The last one I did was in a deep canyon in the late 1990's. I had GPS so ...

@rankin_file They've done a pretty good job with the new stuff in IDOC, but in this county that only gets you back to 2004. Some counties go back f...

The GIS shows it blank, no taxes being collected. John Smith is long gone, who knows where the heirs are. There haven't been taxes paid on it for many...