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...

I've got a spiral to figure out which became an urban road from a US highway. SCS curves were a breeze in Autocad 2002 and I kept a version on my comp...

@gary_g That's close for OPUS; 0.06'. Usually, I get better results by picking the newer CORS and roll my own calculation in TBC. Slightly bett...

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A thumbs down for your post is odd. Where better than here to discuss issues relating to surveying.    

All the deeds in the area call for the SW1/16th corner, it has 4 monuments attempting to establish it. I've never given any credence to any of them. T...

There are no called for monuments in this area for any old deed that I've seen. You will have to prove these monuments wrong. If math is the thing...

@norman-oklahoma It's an easy one, 1957, yellow painted Iron pipe with a homemade cap, 8 years before the first deed showed up. Slam dunk. That's w...

Not called for in the deed, but original? Yeap!!  

@john-hamilton Consistently we have done better vertically with RTX.