I've done a few sewer asset inventories where that would have been useful and would likely have made us money. Even with a big mirror or high lumen li...

Once I was given access to budgeting data spanning over a decade, I was able to see patterns and get a better understanding of the types of projects t...

Great topic, and it shines light on the difficulty of doing the right thing without bankrupting oneself. It's so much easier surveying RoWs in states ...

I agree, at worst it feels like fraud, at best it hints that we don't understand significant digits. I am required to list acreage to the thousandth o...

From what I can tell, it relates to there being no potential for a given boundary monument to greatly impact noncontiguous parcels within the Colonial...

Balancing angles and "adjusting" traverses is the least valuable aspect of least squares for me. As others have mentioned, if you're having difficulty...

If you can afford it, working for a Mom and Pop shop that focuses on boundary surveying for a year or two will give you experience that is typically h...

I can't remember if it was a New Hampshire rule or one set by the town, but they required that the developer set the lot corners or verify their exist...

Regarding monuments with no pedigree, it depends heavily on the state and sometimes the area. When I surveyed in rural Maine, many of the deeds were b...

I agree with that but I'd label each end of the fence with a letter and include a note similar to, "The boundary between A and B is the existing barbw...

It's the illusion that we're in control that misleads us into thinking that all problems can be solved. This is exacerbated by our preference for simp...

Wood Frame Dwelling? Report them to the Bar Association and the Board of Architecture for practicing without a license. 😉 Existing Structur...

Dead horse, pot plants, meth lab, moonshine still, cave full of thousands (millions?) of ladybugs, and a homeless/druggy encampment with a four foot m...

Agreed but with a caveat, find the best available evidence then measure it with a high degree of precision. I've retraced sixty-year-old surveys pe...

@jimcox I'm mostly being flippant here, but are you saying that there's no value in New Zealand to tie a boundary to a geodetic datum? If so, at wh...

@jim-frame I was under the impression that a long slow accretion or reliction would allow the boundary to follow a stream or other natural boundary...

If the previous surveyor looked as far into the future as he did into the past, he would have tied the parcel to GRS80 (Everest 1830 in Burma), so you...

Others have touched on the mathematical reasons for translating and rotating, I'll add that there's value in visualizing the discrepancy between field...