I think I know what you're trying to do. Try this: Highlight the base point. Click on properties. In the properties menu there will be a move survey...

I haven't seen less of them recently, although, there are no remaining CORS left that I would use when I started doing static. It may be different in ...

Awesome!!

The accuracy stated that I see is "plot verified". This is a classic example of someone seeing some data and assuming it's valid for a use it isn't...

I took a quick look at the IDOT website for benchmarks. The few I looked at if they had a Lat, Long listed it was a tenth of a second or nearest 10' i...

That pipe looks amazingly similar to many of the 1/4 GLO brass caps I see, they used pipe sticking out often 12-18" and many get bent just like that o...

One thing to keep in mind with older ROW's is that they can be "true north". Adjusting for that has made a few of them fit much better to our surveys.

I take it to mean they measured the water level on the west side to be 1000' off a bench mark. Traveled to the east side and started a new loop using ...

Outs yes, Stations no, Deeds yes, Plans no. Lots of "it depends" for those rules of thumb pertaining to highway plans. Like RR's, older highway plan...

I collaborate often. No problem with it as long as I'm completely in charge of the LS portions of the project. We work with many engineers, sometimes ...

Here is a recent example of using GLO plats for property assumptions. I had a client in some distress come to the office almost 10 years ago. They had...

Actually, any property located set of coordinates can be retrofitted with an LDP. A few minutes with the programs will get you there. We started doing...

The key to making LDP's useful is to make them "official" so they appear in common engineering/GIS computer programs. As Norman relates Oregon has num...

Well Bill, ya made me look. I have to say I'm incorrect, there are clearly differences on plats from different sources. I've not seen any material iss...

I had a guy show up at the office with one of my monuments, he wanted me to hustle out and reset it.......for free of course.

We don't put security teams on the monuments. At the date I put on the letter the monument was there and in the correct position. After that date, any...

The printing of cartography saw great improvements in the 19th century, mostly because of two technological innovations. First, Senefelder’s invention...