My problem with them is that they are certified to an entity, they are designed to transfer liability from the title industry to a surveyor, and they ...

Exactly, ALTA surveys are designed to transfer liability from title companies to surveyors. But, it's not reasonable to compare two different types o...

I'm of the opinion that ALTA surveys are often a pale shadow of more comprehensive retracements. For a number of reasons, but mostly because they are ...

If I remember correctly, it was a city-wide water system upgrade from a new source outside the city and crossing a number of properties to get it to t...

Well said Norm, so many times a surveyor can clean up issues with descriptions and boundaries by completing a comprehensive survey. It's my opinion af...

No, but that would be more interesting. The creek is the boundary for both, the subsequent surveys after the subdivision muddled the location by holdi...

I have another interesting one this week. A 5 Ac parcel that needs surveyed, per deed the east line is a 1/16th line, the north line is a 1/16th line,...

Our state operates under the 40 year rule. Research for title is required to be done backwards 40 years plus one. Meaning 40 years then to the next ne...

Recently, I did a retracement for some property along very established occupation lines. The deeds on either side of the existing occupation were call...

They sound perfectly fine to me. 🙂

OPUS isn't the tool for dave-o's enviroment. I would hold the island's one CORS point on Mauna Kea and compare the resulting value to a tie from the C...

Imagine the slog of converting something like that into a usable description. I can't say when the first program I got that converted linework into be...

A couple of months ago I bit the bullet and got a TSC5, but it wasn't cheap. 7650 euros. You can look for an old TSC3 on ebay, get yours refurbished a...

Do you have TBC to roll your own, the CORS on Mauna Kea isn't very far away, the one on Haleakala should also work well, after that it's getting out t...

I just looked at the CORS positions and there are only 4 now scattered across the islands. Most of the CORS are out of commission. There is only one o...

The surveyor can identify issues with title, in many cases it's possible to clean up those issues with the survey. However, ultimately boundaries are ...

No, that's not normal, expect to see differences under 1cm. And from your description of what you did with the two sessions, that would mostly be rota...

I've found lots of bearing trees, I recently retraced a 1902 survey, If I tried to hold the position from the bearing trees all the firmly still set o...