To calculate it correctly you need to have the rotation between your local system and UTM. Here is pt 40 and the rotation to geodetic north (astronom...

For point numbers we use DOT convention, since it flows well with our work. 1-200 is control, 200-400 are calculated points (they get deleted constant...

I don't do that anymore, but when I did only the circumstances mattered. Basically, what is the best most efficient way to run the traverse, clockwise...

Do not use 0,0 for any local point. That will send you into all four quadrants with positive and negative coordinates. There are a number of ways to ...

It's something to behold. I had one project where an engineering company hired me to do some property lines. I gave the lines to them in SP as they r...

It appears that 11344 was a claim of 80 acres and was split into two claims, and possibly the division line isn't staked. There are two basis of beari...

This is advanced level land surveying, it really would be best to get a local surveyor experienced in these tracts if one is available. Often there w...

I can download them using the three dot icon when I click on the file. There are three mining claims that I presume were "proved up" and now are parc...

That photo of the toe doesn't look like it's a contender for a "natural" monument call. If the landowner is building a fence it would be best to use i...

Ditches and canals are covered by statute here. There is a statutory easement granted, so it doesn't matter if they shift position, they are still ins...

I might simply call out the toe, setting a cap on it with a witness corner at the begin and end of the toe and describe it with B&D at the time of...

I'll assume that you're lying west of the prime meridian, east of the international date line and south of the equator. I'm north of the equator and ...

I had a local attorney who wanted to split the old homestead. We started along the crest of the left side of a drainage, By the time he was finished I...

Use the defined value for Indiana. If that's US feet don't change to international. It could be either a statute or basically an agreement with NGS.

If you're not processing the static, there isn't much reason to spend an hour on the point. Might as well simply hit the store on the DC and start sur...

I just got a bit of time to look at the drawing in autocad, what I looked at checked out perfectly. The radius is chord defined, Even degree of curve...

I was chatting with a senior enginerd about to retire. He was lamenting about the new enginerds and said; "do you know what they're doing"? "What?"; ...

They may have laid them out using chords, but it's irrelevant since the plat is giving out the radius and the arc length, the two things that you real...

Building permits are often conceptualized drawings. I don't like doing them so I have little concern about them. Regulations can get so oppressive th...