My favorite "Bearings are GPS"

I'm with Gary on this, I've used historical photos for a number of reasons. Locally the NRCS keeps photos going back well before the 1970's and some a...

Finding that elusive court case where there is a dispute between the Geoid Model derived orthometric NAVD88, and the level run from Bench Mark NAVD88 ...

60k for a stripped down 3500 Ram with 8' bed, just got one. They are hard to come by. GULP!!!! Probably did it too early, there could be a crash comi...

It must be noted that many FIRM maps lack bench mark control. In those cases it's not possible to use them for elevations. If there are no BFE plus no...

If we don't have a "real" flood zone on a FEMA map and only one of the Zone A guesses, we run cross-sections, submit the data to a local engineer, the...

That's how I work, always did. Pre-license I didn't go out to a lot survey, locate all the monuments in the block and walk away, I located all the evi...

Not only C1/4 but established 1/16th monuments also. They all count. Be careful of imperial entanglements they seem to only love the math.

You need to be sure whatever you're doing matches the Bench Marks noted as control on the maps. If 2011/2018 will accomplish that then great. Clearly ...

Hold the bench marks referenced on the FEMA map. I hold the NAVD88 first order bench marks from the FEMA maps and apply Geoid 18. Gets me close to all...

I imagine that NZ and Maui have similar issues with earthquakes, global movement, local disturbance events. A coordinate system should be based on a G...

They actually took your personal writings and conclusions and posted them? That's not good. I can't imagine there's any copyright protection for avai...

My experience with wildfires in the big country is that they expose monuments. In fact they can make recovery way easier. Until of course equipment co...

Water and Mineral rights are items left off of ALTA requests. At least ones I've encountered. However, these are important items. Mineral rights shou...

Mineral Rights? Leasing Agreements I assume between a development Co. and Mineral Right owner? Then there is the surface owner, often two different ow...

I went through a long back and forth with title people and the city. The city vacated a road, then wrote these deeds splitting the road in 1/2 and "gr...

Hopefully the surveying community can be helpful here. It's such a sad tragic area now, it's going to be very difficult to work there. I salute everyo...

I'll go out on a limb and say there's probably some local surveyors that already have a bunch of the property coordinates in some usable fashion. If i...

We only have an S6 and nothing like the posted excessive times have shown up. I asked the field crews and they scoffed even at the idea. Can't speak t...