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...

@lurker Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed the four year experience requirement in Option-1.

While I don't necessarily disagree with the board holding us to a standard, it's hard to square this with the general lack of anything similar being a...

Thanks for sharing. I haven't made it back to Alaska since my father passed away fifteen years ago. Prior to that we went often and, in-between filli...

@mightymoe Most states have no requirement that boundary surveys be tied to geodetic reference system. Typically when it's brought up, PLSs will a...

NCDOT engineers have to be the best. While average PEs cheat the taxpayer by using simplistic straight lines and horizontal curves, our PEs can desig...

@wonderwoman9 I have a canned statement that I copy and paste into an email that I then schedule send to the client for around 45 days after I deli...

Ditto, they're also great for car camping and backpacking.

Surveyors could be part of the solution to this confusion if we stopped making excuses for PLSs lacking the discipline to understand geodetic referenc...

Since you're reading Brown, which seems to be where many surveyors get the idea that they can't provide recommendations concerning legal processes rel...