Yes, fence installers and landscapers destroy a lot of boundary monuments. Power companies have gotten better, but they used to purposely place poles ...

The plaintiff would have to provide evidence of the boundary's location in order to claim trespass. The forester could calculate current and future st...

I like quizzing the contractor's GPS guy about their surveying procedures and what I've learned is that they are not surveyors and don't know what the...

Blue also stands out to color blind folks. I had kid working with me that was one of the 8% of males in the USA that are color blind. He couldn't see ...

VRSs vary but I've never seen one be off by 0.6' in the open. That 0.6' is close to length of an adapter placed on a prism pole to make the antenna he...

jimcox has the right idea. Field coding is extremely helpful for crews to keep track of what they've located and fill in any gaps. Many PLSs and PMs m...

Whether it's on a wood stake set next to the monument or a nearby tree, boundary corners get flagged thrice with blue and pink with the knots facing t...

I hesitated to use digital signatures until I began keeping track of the time I spent printing and signing documents plus the cost of reprints. Even a...

It sounds like you and or your company have found an efficient way to take ellipsoid measurements and scale them to Ground instead of calculating to S...

The SC-SPCS consists of a single Lambert Conformal Conic projection that covers the entire state so there's no need to specify a zone. The general con...

DocuSign works well for me. I'm not sure about the pricing, but I've heard that they charge by the signature which is an easy cost to pass to the clie...

@peter-lothian It was a culture shock when I left Maine and witnessed how aggressive folks in other states are with trespassing. Folks are shocked ...

Duncan-Parnell rents Schonstedts for $50/day. I bet you could find a survey supply store near you that rents them.

@peter-lothian Agreed, strange way of wording it. I wonder if it relates to hunting. In Colorado and Utah, I've seen landowners advertising "trespa...

I keep everything in State Plane but I'm in a generally low and flat area. Statewide LiDAR is on SPCs, as our ortho panels and all tax maps. I've seen...

Yes, I meant my proposals expire. I use the house renovation analogy when they request a firm completion date. Regarding the survey-ignorant client...

Buy once, cry once. Buy nice or buy twice. Get the GA-52Cx. It has a 7 year warranty, it works, and as others have mentioned, you could probably sell ...

People have no idea what surveyors do or even what a survey is. If I get annoyed or frustrated with a surveying-ignorant person asking an ignorant que...

I'll trade with you. Our reviewers reject plats on a whim based on unwritten rules. They make developers add things, "just because it'd be nice". They...