To clarify my question, what questions might you ask to determine whether the pipeline location or the description will be held? I will implore yo...

In my experience it's important to correct the native file. If you do this in a secondary file such as AutoCad or StarNet the connection to the base p...

@mathteacher Yes, or any large area coordinate system. I haven't done a 10,000, 10,000 job in a very long time. Even during the TS days we had exte...

Correct the base, recompute the observed points. There are many ways to correct the base, the best is to simultaneously collect static as you RTK po...

@chris-bouffard Instances you mentioned where you've seen negative coordinates being used. Negative coordinates used to be quite common. The olde...

Legally a defined lot will be fixed in acreage. However, it sounds like this was never a lot or tract in a filed subdivision. A bit of a grey area i...

@native1 The profile answered exactly like an AI would. JK

The Cartesian coordinate system was first presented by Rene Descartes in 1637. You've piqued my interest. Was Descartes development his alone, or i...

When it comes to quality of work bigger isn’t always better, many times far from it. I recently reviewed some "big survey firm" work. It was not go...

Does the easement then shift? Nah, that would be avulsion, the centerline stays where it was.

I heard a story at the convention some years ago - ALTA on an industrial site, That's the purpose of ALTAs, put liability on the surveyor. It's o...

remain correct (250' between points will be 250'). Not really, 250' between points will be 250' +- 250(the PPM correction for the projection at you...

There can be time limited agreements prepared much like the situation you describe. Be sure that there wasn't a one year limit to get the pipe surveye...

If you can really low bid the jobs, you might drive the other guy out of business trying to match. I'm not advocating doing it, but it sure would be...

There's no stamping on the disk, the surveyor usually set rebar, the other picture is simply where the parcel is.

The survey refers to an older instrument as a basis. It's doubtful that a surveyor in 1987 did anything magnetic. All he is saying is that the 1987 su...

It's a mixed bag with highways, unfortunately they often took ROW's using a spiral curve spiral. DOT heard enough complaints about that procedure that...

Meridians are lines with the same Longitude, not the same Latitude/Longitude. That is a point not a line.