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Trimble Access can do this for you if you've taken multiple shots with the same "Name" then store them as "store another". If your DC can't calc the p...
NCrequires an example plat be provided for their review. This can be time consuming but the NC Board is generally easy to communicate with and can pro...
"You can be held for ethical reason buy not legally liable if you're not sealing it. That's the word from the BOE. As I suspected it would be." ?ÿ I w...
In NC, a PLS must adhere to minimum standard regardless of who seals the final plat or report.?ÿ Even if your boss seals all the office's survey produ...
Show it on the sketch and lable it "Existing Mobile Home TO BE REMOVED AT CLOSING" I had a similar request about five years ago. I told them I was obl...
I used to blaze and paint for the Forest Service around the White Mountains in NH.?ÿ We were required to blaze everything then come back in a couple o...
NC?ÿdefines topographic mapping, horizontal and vertical control surveys, and construction staking as being land surveying protected practices with th...
It wasn't easy.?ÿ I had to move away from family and friends in Maine and NH when the economy tanked.?ÿ My wife supported me during that period while ...
I started at $14/hour in 2009 and in less than ten years I'm just shy of six figures.?ÿ When asking for more money I never once mentioned the going ra...
NC is all over the place.?ÿ Many counties are fully online, others will be scanned back to the 1970s.?ÿ I've long known that a little bit of power can...
A.S. Surveying Technology from White Mountains C. C. in Berlin, NH (best money I ever spent, thanks Dave Carlisle) B.S. in Geography/GIS with a minor ...
Slander of title is no joke as it is easier to prove and collect damages from than professional negligence.?ÿ I show the encroachment or adverse claim...
NC seems to have a happy medium by requiring all subdivision plats to be recorded but not requiring the same for retracements.?ÿ I am not an advocate ...
In Maine a PLS is bound by surveyor client confidentiality: ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿA licensee shall not reveal information which has been designated as confidential?...
Does the client that purchased a survey have the ability to resell the plat of survey assuming that he changes nothing and marks it "Copy"??ÿ If the c...
This is basic ethics.?ÿ It is unethical to charge Client-A $1000 for a boundary then charge the owner abutting Client-A a discounted price just becaus...