It's 2024 and there are videos for surveyors on how to do a site calibration? I started watching and thought it was 1996 again. As far as the observ...

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there is interesting Geoid Model topography to deal with for this one. I was checking a local area and the geoid he...

I've got the big floppy hats, and I go to the dermatologist once a year. They always find something to hack off. So far, no cancer. It's interesting ...

Well, he won and now he gets to go back to court.

Shawn, I'm afraid that option is not available once Math Teacher's excellent question was answered. 2.4 miles is too short a distance to make it wort...

As a binary question: Does the road width on a plat of 60' override the found monumentation on the ground showing 50'? Original monuments are king, th...

It is possible to design a TM that will have grid scales that kinda follow a slope east-west up the mountain if it's a more or less even slope one way...

I'm a railroad guy. Even all the files they sent me are filed under Railroad ROW's.

Some love to gossip, some loathe to. Hire the loathers. And it's not only client information that can make that type of person toxic.

It's vitally important. Keep work to yourself. It's easy anyway, surveying is booorrrrrinnnnnggggg. Nobody wants to listen to stories about it, or gos...

At the upper and lower elevations it will create 50 ppm of "error", or 0.50' in 10,000'. If that's too much you can do two zones which will1/2 that er...

That's what I figured. And the new forms took more than a couple of hours, even with my fast computer there was lots time watching a spinning wheel t...

There are certainly changes that are pushing out traditionally reserved tasks from surveyors to others. This will continue to create conflicts. Mappin...

Ask what NAVD88 or NGVD29, or Geoid03, 09, 12, 18 are. I'm guessing he won't have a clue. Just saying.

From the OP's statements I might very well advise them to get the 10' of street vacated. Cities will often be onboard as long as utilities are protect...

Who wants a wider ROW? If no one wants that (the city); then petition for vacation and clean it up. It usually takes four meetings to get it done: Yo...

You need geotextile to figure out your contours!!! He's only trying to help. It's a big subject you're undertaking. I would suggest a little survey f...