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 ...

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...