Duane Frymire, post: 349773, member: 110 wrote: The historical development of acquiescence clearly stems from surveyors not recognizing evidence of th...

I'm not a big fan of lawns. I view lawn care as a waste of time and resources. However, I've learned that some people assign enormous value to their...

Everyone in our company gets a crisp $100 bill in a card. Kinda of strange when you consider that some of our senior engineers are making around $200...

I found that my level of effort was commensurate to that of the instructor's. Fortunately, I had the privilege to attend Dave Carlisle's program at W...

A wealthy elderly couple call me up and ask me to stake their lot lines because they are sure their western abutter has been clearing brush on their l...

Compared to what? With what unit do you measure competency?

I certainly don't advocate ignorance of language, I just haven't experienced a lack of commonality of terms. Most of my clients have never spoken to ...

The study of law is built upon the foundation philosophy. Memorization of statutes and an occasional glance at abstracts of court opinions is much bet...

Lack of unity of terminology is quite far down the list of reasons why people don't trust us. People mistrust surveyors because we represent change. ...

The isolation and distribution of measurement errors is one of the core functions of a land surveyor. If I were building a new GIS for tax mapping I ...

I take affidavits in a bound field book and nothing else. We use long detailed descriptions and the "note" feature provided by SurvCE. At the end of...

I remember a survey I did in fairly small subdivision while I was still in school and taking a Survey Law class. I was working with the owner/PLS and...

I agree with Nate. The easiest thing to do (which is often the wrong thing to do) is to just leave them there, as it requires no thought, liability, ...

North Carolina's board sent me a certification for engineering instead of surveying. All the board members signed it despite it clearly having a four...

What good is is a standard if no one follows it and there is no resulting harm? I have seen more actual harm caused from adherence to Alta standards, ...

I doubt the average client can or will trace their metes and bounds out. Anyone clever enough to do that would likely recognize their lot on a plat an...

To paraphrase Churchill: Testing is the worst way to judge competence, except for all the others.

I'm glad I could help. My guess is that if you left the exam feeling good then you passed it.

My understanding is that all the FSs across the nation are scored then run through some form of statistical analysis to isolate questions that a signi...

One of the best surveyors in northern NH showed me something similar to what Williwaw described but a bit easier to set up on. After you shoot your f...