Good to hear from another Mainer.?ÿ I grew up near Lovell, Maine before moving around the country a bit and settling in North Carolina. Does Maine ha...

@fairbanksls I feel the same way concerning the title of PLS.?ÿ It doesn't seem right to call oneself a professional.?ÿ I grew up believing that prof...

?ÿ I helped someone get a variance by assembling screen shots of distances measured off the local GIS.?ÿ?ÿ What is preventing you from writing a bri...

It would be overreach in most states but not NC. NC has a long history of quality public planning.?ÿ It was, after all, an NC engineer who conceived ...

I use Trimble for all my GNSS work, Leica for TS, Star*Net for corrections, then create a txt file from Star*Net that I import into C3D.?ÿ?ÿ I tried ...

I suppose Michael's success will in large part depend on how much money he has or can collect from others with similar interests.?ÿ Their myopic focu...

Have a secretary or your wife or anyone who has no emotional attachment to the plat record it for you.?ÿ There's no need for you to waste time dealing...

It's interesting that HOAs existed long before zoning.?ÿ The desire for conformity (and/or exclusion) is strong amongst a large number of folks.?ÿ Gr...

@bstrand It depends on the project and the overall experience of the crew.?ÿ If inexperienced, I'll default to telling them offsets to inverts are ok...

We need to concede that we lost the war with coyotes.?ÿ Dan Flores wrote an incredibly detailed history of the coyote, Coyote America, that among many...

I just label OD or ID and put spell it out in my legend along with Below Grade and Above Grade: Found Pipe 1inch OD BG 0.4feet.?ÿ?ÿ NC requires that ...

Our great insurance overlords just decreed that all our vehicles must have a GPS tracker.?ÿ I don't like it, mostly because I view insurance as the or...

@holy-cow GPS isn't required but it definitely saves time.?ÿ The rule doesn't require SPCs on the POB, only that one corner be tied to a benchmark.

I've grown to appreciate North Carolina's requirement that all surveys be tied to a benchmark if there's a benchmark within 2000' of the subject parce...

@jim-in-az As I said above: "there are a few recording states that haven't exploited the purchasers of surveys but I have faith that they will event...

@dms330 From what I can tell, it is mostly a gotcha.?ÿ Once a state decides to mandate the recording of all surveys, it is only a matter of time befo...

In NC it would likely be a recombination.?ÿ I would label the land to be conveyed as Tract-A and make sure that your client gets a description for a q...