@eapls2708 That's a great assessment. I see many examples of what you described in the UAS surveying world. There are many technically competent pi...

I've witnessed pincushions causing confusion amongst landowners more than any other feeling or emotion. Most of the pincushions I see in North Carol...

The better question is, "How many land owners understand their property survey after I hand them their plat?" It's more useful to dwell on things with...

Do: Create a spreadsheet or similar for calculating your proposals, even small ones. It should be a work in progress where you can continue to add or ...

Ditto mdavis's comment. Make sure you can recognize some of the regulatory agencies involved in zoning and permitting around the coast and tidal water...

@jim-frame I wasn't suggesting three D&R shots to each point except for closely located points. Perfect is the enemy of good when creating sta...

Locating everything from a single setup is acceptable in NC as long as you can calculate the relative positional accuracy and it meets the specs. Gene...

There are numerous situations, even outside natural disasters, that require a PLS to use the tangible evidence, what can be seen and measured, even th...

Folks that enjoy math will find a way to use it.

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...