@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...

I usually purchase gin spindles online, but now that Norman mentioned it, maybe I should stop by gin factory on a rainy day with a bucket and ask for ...

It's an unwritten rule for sure, but it spotlights another area where the land surveying community could improve, standardizing monumentation. It woul...

After speaking with a paving crew operating cold planers, I can no longer justify setting metal objects in asphalt. Like many PLSs, I'm not fond of wi...

Do some research on where people in the US are moving to and where they're moving from, then look at the average age of the populace. If economics is ...

Chris, it's a recognition that the audience for any given plat is difficult to predict. I make my maps for sophisticated and unsophisticated parties a...

BC-Surveyor recently posted a video about this, take a look: GNSS Corrections Compared - RTK vs RTN vs RTX & How to Build a Geodnet Base

That's amazing. Before electricity, would it have been possible to keep a lantern lit in that environment?

There's a difference between stating that one is not an attorney and stating that an opinion has not included the oversight of an attorney. Too many ...