@r-leonard?ÿ A gold plated survey would be gold plated only if it recovered the four original corner markers used 100 years ago for the cut out showi...

Who has occupied the strip in question and for how long? In what way has the strip been occupied and by whom? What would lead the owner of the parcel ...

Sure as heck would hope so.?ÿ

@spmpls I think you would have to say we were involved as a facilitator. They seemed to understandably want to use their own people for the work. Bu...

@spmpls?ÿ Iowa. Worked with Michael Dennis on the 2022 Iowa SPCS and the original Iowa LDP zones.?ÿ I have to say the new datum helped me decide reti...

Correct. Same zone boundaries expressed in even meters on the origins and not close to the current US ft values when converted. The official zone coor...

@rover83?ÿ No, easier said than done. We are going for administrative rules written to follow the lead of whatever the current NGS policy is so no ...

Unless I missed it I see TS mentioned once in 3 pages of static GPS in canopy. I must be out of touch.?ÿ

Answering this by anyone not licensed in ID is pointless.?ÿ

Surely Abbott and Costello must be nearby.?ÿ

I could be. The exhibit seems to indicate the exception is a permanent easement meaning it is not needed in this easement. So the road already has 40 ...

Are there two discussions going on here? Why are we talking about DOT concrete posts when he found 1/2" rebar? Probably not set by state.?ÿ

@williwaw?ÿ I hear you. We all want to get it right however we do our best and a higher authority can either agree or disagree if it goes that way. A...

As a ret. DOT ROW surveyor let me say this about that. There is a document that precedes that plat that grants 50 ft. of ROW. I am curious if that doc...

It was mentioned sometimes we are the first to break down a section. My experience is that may happen once or twice in a career. In most cases the sec...

I don't see GPS on BM going away given what it's being used for. Don't tell anyone I said that.?ÿ

@dmyhill?ÿ I love answering for a question to someone else 🙂 At the risk of presumption I would say floating is referring to the phenomenon that if ...

@frozennorth?ÿ Not the point I wanted to make. The other day I found two boundary corners constructed of #5?ÿ rebar. They were exposed above grade ab...

I'd rather have 60 mm precision on an accurate old boundary mark than 10 mm precision on a shiny new inaccurate boundary mark.?ÿ

@aliquot?ÿ Yet how many times have we heard those things the Supremes tell us to use that make it not entirely obliterated cannot be considered becau...