Interesting timing.?ÿ I took a twenty year old engineering intern out to survey a short profile centered along an existing sewerline.?ÿ I'm not into p...

Why not just import a dxf from your data collector? The linework should be edited in the field as it's collected.?ÿ Even when working correctly, C3D l...

@wa-id-surveyor That makes it even more onerous.?ÿ?ÿ When I think of Washington State, my heart goes out to a poor pod of orcas that can no longer s...

I carried a firearm while guiding fishermen in Alaska.?ÿ I doubt it would have saved me in a situation where I surprised a bear but it increased my co...

Two things were necessary for this fee increase: 1. A law mandating the recording of plats 2. Politicians working backwards to find sources of fundi...

If your 1200 was only lightly used, you should get a few years of heavy use out of it. I've used Leica Robots since 2009, beginning with a 1100 serie...

So we've nailed down the definition of a BLagreement, but how about the real question: When do you throw up your hands in defeat and tell the owner t...

Dig it out and while doing so, continue to remind yourself that it's awesome to work in an area where there are no rocks in the soil.?ÿ Dump a few pal...

And all this time I thought boundary line agreements were there for us to use whenever our client's last name was Smith or Miller or whenever searchin...

Before leaving a construction site after setting stakes, take the signed construction plans and confirm that everything makes sense.?ÿ Take a rag tape...

@dave-o He doesn't get a distance check.?ÿ He sights the nail and sets angle.?ÿ Another way of doing it is to shoot your foresight, then reverse the ...

@mightymoe The Statute of Frauds requires land transaction to be in writing but there is no law that the deed has to be recorded.?ÿ?ÿ I haven't surv...

@mike-marks Humans will always be in conflict over there boundaries.?ÿ Within a year of the Mayflower's arrival there was a documented boundary confl...

@dmyhill:?ÿ"I will go further: If you surveyed a parcel and found their occupation encroached on the area described in a neighbor's deed, and you purp...

@dmyhill I agree that personal feelings or emotions should not influence our opinions.?ÿ I'm not sure what the real difference is between intuition b...

If I spent a good part of each day searching for reasons to be aggrieved, this would still be far down my list.?ÿ They'll probably go after et ux next...

I've mentioned it before but the Maine Rule regarding AP requires that the party gaining land through AP must know that the land they are gaining is n...

So you define all surveys that don't produce a recorded plat as "secretive"??ÿ This is a poorly thought out idea.?ÿ Mandatory recording is a new conce...