Last seen: Nov 17, 2024
Don't know if anyone has wrote this yet but adjusting two tenths out of a traverse based on RTK observed control is a fools game if that's what is occ...
Won't try to speak for anyone other than myself. Sometimes I take a quick glance for boundary topics and save the other stuff for when I have more ti...
I didn't intend to cause more work for you Wendell. I'm sure you have enough already. I plead guilty to not using tags. Never took time to learn using...
The Right-of-Way matters, because that dictates the Point-of-Beginning.Who told you that? What matters in a old subdivision is where the boundary line...
I've posted this before. Supreme Court of Iowa held survey on the ground controls over plat. A couple notations are important. 1) Court held that the...
Lol, sounds like my wife. All I meant is land owners, surveyors, county officials and lawyers kind of abandoned a well thought out system of using the...
Having spent a number of years evaluating proposals the difference in them is not a surprise to me. There were many times when it was helpful to ask f...
Different facts, different answers. Funny thing is, you could have the same facts and a different court and get a different answer. So true. Depends...
The story I've heard is Iowa county sizes were designed so that a round trip in daylight could be made by horse and buggy to the courthouse from anywh...
I see you added the 14 chains in your example. The course in the court case was stated as "thence East to the section line between sections 17 and 18"...
The fact that the east distance calls in the deed total 40 chains is an indication that the deed is referring to the record 40 government chains. If t...
In 1950 the "plain, ordinary and proper sense" of deed measurements in chains that added up to the given government measurement in chains meant that t...
My comments are based on these assumptions and 45 years of experience in route survey: 1) There is no need to replace the centerline vertical componen...
When I worked for the DOT and there was a question of title that couldn't be resolved in a timely manner and they needed a deed for the project to pro...
The last county road I surveyed had 3 centerlines marked by monuments and record surveys. Two by the same surveyor. I used the one that was used for t...
<div>what situation would there be that would call for running static data?</div><div>Here are a few: Geodetic control survey establ...
3 to 5 mm of network (global) accuracy is hard to achieve. Don't confuse it with local accuracy which for all intents and purposes is what most projec...
Sounds like you put a lot of thought into this. You have a small project area. 500 ft x 400. I was taught to bring control to the project from outside...
