@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.

Many surveys are filed and the grantee is the Wait for it the PUBLIC ALTA's are a weird, strange, odd subset of surveying, it's not valid to thrus...

The ALTAfication of the surveying profession right there.

As always the question is: Which answer is correct? That will tell which process is "doing it right".

@mightymoe THRAC alert - What kind of robo-mower is that? How do you like it? Best thing ever invented!!!! Its a Works Landroid. It mows the la...

Reading an article about minimum wages. The minimum wage is always 0. Here's an example: Robbie the robot lawnmower now mows my lawn, I'm hardly e...