We often place drawings on the back side of a corner record, or refer to a more complex filed record of survey for details. In Montana the corner reco...

I'll go out on a limb and guess they were printed. The government was quite a bit more sophisticated than monks in a 12th century monastery

I'm going to be filing a Record of Survey in the next month. It will consist of 18 11X17" sheets, the local office requires 24x36" plats so I will pri...

That's a great question. It's changing, but yes, and that all depends on the state, the agency, the clerk, ect. Some surveys have to be 8-1/2x11, then...

I record almost all surveys I do. Not that it's required for all the surveys I do, but there are surveys that do require recordings, the ones that don...

It dates the time the monument was located, the record from last fall doesn't. That's what the client needed since he was building a boundary fence an...

There's multiple recordings, but I won't write a letter saying the monument is correct today without going to the field today no matter how many recor...

Monuments hold a special status. When in place as originally set they will almost (some exceptions) always overrule measurements. When it's set and th...

It's not an issue according to an old State Board president. He surveyed many of his own properties for development. Mostly I have been good with what...

R8-2's are awesome units. They don't do canopy like an R10 or R12, but for open country and scattered obstructions they really work. The one thing I d...

My experience is that rivers might well be surveyed with separate crews. Stubbing out the 1/4 on the west side, measuring the river with different not...

A very common prism offset is -30mm, .08' 30mm, just saying. Some numbers jump out at you.

Yes, it's very explainable, GLO notes are full of mistakes.

.08' in 300' off the top of my head is 267PPM. This is a gross error, you would need to be +5000' above the ellipsoid for that to work because of scal...

OleMan, even more on point is to teach yourself geodetic calculations from your measurements. I don't really know how the old timers did it, I know th...

It was way more intensive to survey with state plane prior to computer programs doing it all for you. Learning to reduce instrument data to geodetic c...