@bstrand That's one way to look at it.?ÿ Here is another: The right of privacy does not need to be explained or defended (yet) in the USA.?ÿ My clie...

@dmyhill:?ÿ"I tell my clients that they pay me, but I work for the cadaster. I make decisions without regard to feelings and without regard to whom is...

@bstrand Better yet, if you live in a non recording state, be aware that mandatory recording is not a panacea.?ÿ If your state tries to adopt mandato...

@aliquot That is one possibility.?ÿ Others could be the exact location of access easements, springheads, acreage, or my favorite, just because they w...

A secondary reason that I object to mandated recording concerns the rights of my clients to privacy.?ÿ It doesn't happen often, but occasionally I wil...

@rover83 Municipalities generate a list of requirements that must be met prior to receiving a signature from the review officer.?ÿ The items on this ...

Tenants have no rights to the land, they simply represent open and notorious, continuous, and hostile use.?ÿ Landowner has a case for AP.?ÿ If I were ...

@protracted That's a great point about the well-intentioned causing harm too.?ÿ If I tattle, it likely be because of the this.

I have no problems with GIS techs or GISPs until they start locating utility assets.?ÿ I can't stomach turning someone in for anything less than ill i...

@aliquot I agree that a recorded plat provides more and better information.?ÿ I just don't believe the value of a recorded plat is greater than that ...

This is a recording vs non recording issue because in a non recording state a PLS can still provide a valuable service to his client with or without t...

@holy-cow Perhaps we should mandate reading comprehension. Strawman arguments are amusing but not very useful. Mandatory recording of plats did not ...

Take note, if you work in a non recording state.?ÿ Mandated recording should be fought wherever it rears its ugly head.?ÿ Like many things, it appear...

I will use age-of-bar evidence as proof that a found corner is not the original, but I wonƒ??t use it as proof that Iƒ??ve found the original.?ÿ A ye...

@dougie I said the same thing to myself on Friday when I landed a 150ac retracement survey in the Blue Ridge Mountains.?ÿ All eight tracts had ancien...

When you decide where you are going, be sure to study their application process.?ÿ Education history or the lack thereof could be a sticking point.

Did you ask the adjoiner why he didn't want it set? I'm sure there's more to the story, but it seems odd to me that you view the math as immutable an...

@aliquot It's also a good to remember that planning is a thankless job.?ÿ The first PLS I worked for couldn't deal with planners as he focused only w...

NC requires chord bearing and distance so I add it below R and L.?ÿ In the Boone, NC area it seemed as though PLSs discovered horizontal curves in the...