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...

Search for the thread "New Definition of Navigable Water" NC v Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. just upended the traditional metric used for determining n...

The standard in NC is to label the most recent deed.?ÿ However, the question I ask myself when creating any plat is, "What recorded documents helped m...

Using SurvCE, I measure then take and record my offset. I then press alt+F which instantly turns off all points, except the last stored point, on the ...

One good thing about the Surveyor 2 with LRB is the battery life. I could probably get three days out of one charge.?ÿ

I just deal with it. If it is a tight shot in dense vegetation, I usually have to remove the DC from the rod and place it on top of or close to the pr...

I have the same setup. Long range Bluetooth is your problem and there is no solution other than purchasing a DC with a built-in radio.?ÿ ?ÿ

Attribute tables can easily be split in GIS software and maybe even TBC.?ÿ Take one shot in the field and have a long list of attributes that are arra...

Point taken.?ÿ My surveying career has been limited to the colonies.?ÿ In Maine, the rough test was whether or not the brook could be used to float ti...