I'll do it when a reviewer requests it, but I include a statement similar to, "The setbacks shown are in reference to Town of Annoyingreviewer's 2025 ...

Firestix Glad it ended well. Communication is much more difficult and more important than most folks realize. I've run into similar issues when loc...

Yes, the North Carolina Board of Examiner for Engineers and Surveyors publishes one and the North Carolina Society of Surveyors publishes one as well.

***Trigger warner, this is not a helpful comment, please don't read it. It'd be amazing to have a global system that would allow all surveyors to me...

I agree with William H though I think he was a bit harsh as the average landowner doesn't know enough about . If you measured between the existing b...

As a PLS who strongly objects to the mandatory recording of retracement surveys, I would agree but only if the intent of pinning parcels to Earth was ...

You should read through the 2023 ASPRS standards. There's some solid advice in between the more technical portions of the document. I would never vie...

Is it ironic or hypocritical for a PLS that doesn't pin or tie their client's parcel to Earth to complain about the inaccuracy of GIS based tax maps (...

And that might be precisely the data a California PLS needs in a hundred years! How many more wildfires, earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic erupt...

I was on a long drive back from the NC mountains yesterday and I started thinking about what a PLS one hundred years in the future might think about o...

It's complicated, and not at all intuitive. Glad you're trying to learn, but without some foundational knowledge of stats, the potential for a blunde...

It's complicated, and not at all intuitive. Glad you're trying to learn, but without some foundational knowledge of stats, the potential for a blunde...

I would record an affidavit detailing the situation and request that the registrar attach it to the plat or in some way reference it. You'll harm you...

I'd look closely at the Carlson BRx7/Hemisphere S631. Like most here, I've used just about every software/hardware solution and they all work. I pre...

I use Arial. Every now and again I'll make a copy of a copy of a copy of a plat and see what's still legible. Arial performs well. Text leaders and ...

Last week's eclipse

When mixing Trimble with anything other than Trimble, I always felt like it was an uphill battle. I'm sure there are some work arounds, and maybe the...

Another name for Gaussian rounding is Banker's rounding. There's a setting for it in Autodesk but I never found one for Carlson. You'd think it woul...

The attached spreadsheet allows you to copy and paste coordinates for three separate VRS occupation, then it automatically calculates the absolute pre...

I try not to view evidence as being in conflict in the early stages of a boundary. During the fact gathering portion of a survey, evidence is neither...