If you haven't already done so, familiarize yourself with the ASPRS standards and apply them. I've been using UAS photo and LiDAR for about a year n...

Depends. If I am providing other services, I'll burn a static session for however long I'm there. Otherwise, three time separated network RTK burns ...

It shouldn't be an update issue. Attached is setup guide for using the R12 as an NTRIP caster for a DJI M350 RTK. Ignoring the DJI, double check tha...

Throw out a big number and maybe you'll get lucky...

That sounds right but I can imagine quite a few scenarios where it wouldn't work. What if the owner purchased the lots at separate times and through ...

I would familiarize myself with the ins and outs of zoning, discuss it with your client and consider the ramifications of: 1) stopping the survey, 2) ...

My less than elegant solution is to drive each leg down into the soft asphalt as far as I can get it to go then spank the holes I made with a sledge w...

To be sure we need to build awareness that land surveying exists, but the major factor is pay. I’ve slowly drifted over to the Dan Beardslee's school...

You should speak with the someone within the state, county, or city floodplain management. Intuition is your enemy with Elevation Certs. Generally, y...

I've heard great things about Schnees if you still want a made in USA. I wear Meindl Vakuum Hunters in the mountains and Salomon X Ultras elsewhere. ...

It depends on what I'm doing. I'll run it at 4.5ft if I'm doing an as-built of a landfill gas system where I'm generally getting 20-29 satellites. I...

How about this situation. The street creeps by almost a foot over a couple decades. Pins have been set at the property corners, ostensibly, original...

It's unlikely your surveyor did anything wrong. His opinion was likely correct based on the evidence present to him at the time of the survey. Chang...

Surveyor specific requirements can be found on page nine. This is one of the more stringent set of requirements I've dealt with in North Carolina, bu...

Start with the lawyer who drafted the deed. If that doesn't work, go to the tax agency and see if you can send a letter to the owner. I have had two...

So you identified the problem, maybe consider being part of the solution? Slapping state plane coordinates on a couple of boundary corners resolves t...

If they're requesting a quick turn-around, I set the proposal's expiration accordingly. I've gone as low as three days in an extreme case. I remind...

If you'll PM me with your contact information, I'll pass along the numbers of a couple of surveyors who may be able to help you.

@jph Towns in NC are not a political division in the same way as they are in the Northeast. In many places in the South, towns must be incorporated...

Social status is the underlying motivation for many actions. Engineering will always be a higher status profession than surveying and that alone will...