We do job cards, each job gets a job card or multiple cards that place the location of the job, it also cross-references the location with the client ...

Was the Tech working for an alphabet agency? Just watched that very thing happen last year. The old 1/16th monuments didn't mean anything, time to res...

There is a reason 250' is recommended as a distance limit for levels, well two reasons. Curvature and refraction. You say it yourself; "when the heat ...

I use 11x17 exclusively for one client. They want field plan set sizes. Normally for them the number of sheets for each job is at least three. I'm pri...

@dougie In writing is the difficult part. Statutes may layout the process to dedicate and vacate a road, but it's court cases that get into the det...

I looked up a bit of Michigan statutes and rules for this question. Seems it's like many other states, but I got bored diving into the weeds and will ...

Now what do you do when you hire an engineer for your project?

@rover83 My comment was specific to Wyo, I assume NGS publishes DS values aligned with each state. They aren't changing in 2023 for NAD83 numbers....

@rover83 Datasheets are in USft still. Went back and looked and the last OPUS I did had no feet anywhere. I'm like you, I don't pay attention to t...

That's a strange one. If the new widened ROW runs E-W then there is 5' bump into the new ROW. So say the north 5' of the west 30' of Lot 1 and the no...

It's gonna be fun, the NGS will continue to publish in USfeet,,,,,,,,soooooo guess what users will put into the black boxes.

@lurker Yes, they publish values in US Feet, however, it's not statutory. So,,,,,,,,,, here we are today. No big deal for me, these projects are hy...

@olemanriver I remember some of those numbers, 1609.34, 804.67, 18.28, 10.06, they tend to stick especially 804.67, I used that thing so many times.

Universal Citation: WY Stat § 34-25-101 (through 2012) 34-25-101. System of plane coordinates adopted; zones. (a) The system of plane coordinates...

@norm Yep, the great meter conversion fiasco. I was a big advocate of it, changed my mind by the time it was finally pulled. Learned what the term F...

@lurker That one is plainly stated. International Feet in Michigan.

There is talk that the state is legislatively defined as US survey feet for NAD83. I'd like to see that statute, from my reading of it, the statute is...

We use C3D. Most of our engineering clients want to develop their own drawings and we send them coded points. The first coded points I did were for a...