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@cra903 Attorneys and title people like using Exhibits. Exhibit A being the description. The preamble will say something like, a tract of land situa...
Then they had the age old argument about the C1/4, Old-timer found a monument that's used in a couple of descriptions and a highway. It's almost perfe...
@olemanriver It's super easy, all you do is copy a poly line (2d) to TBC, then access the LD program, it will write the description using the poly. ...
A different state here, but I'm going to say it needs a full survey. That's too tough to do with verbiage, our planners would require it; boundary and...
@olemanriver No, I only use Autocat for drafting. TBC is strictly used for handling coordinates plus using it for Legal Descriptions, I really like ...
I started using StarNet about 93-94? somewhere in that time frame. It faded away when I got Trimble and now it's all Trimble. We do very little gun wo...
@rundatline There are almost no surveys that we don't record, it's more rare than not. Those old Mortgage inspection surveys are some of them. Somet...
@dougie We sent it to them, it's a real mess here but not as bad as they are getting. ☹️
@nate-the-surveyor A sunburn would be nice after this winter,,,,,,,,,,you are an exceptionally early riser Nate.
@kevin-hines We do the same, Commencing at "xxx", thence to the Point of Beginning. The TPOB is awkward but sometimes I run into them. No big deal...
@lurker That's certainly a valid argument, it would take a QT action to clean it up.
@thebionicman I'm just starting a job now where I'm trying to convince the grantor to grant to the centerline of the highway a parcel he wants to se...
@holy-cow For the owners too. I had a client that was trying to get out of one. The cost was prohibitive. It's a lucrative business.
I also have to say that now the work flow has changed to catch these issues. A ROW survey is done, from that the engineers design a new ROW, ROW is ac...
@stacy-carroll Speaking as someone who has done many of these maps. Often DOT has title people who put the instruments together. I highly doubt that...