?ÿ Been biting my tongue on this for a while but here it goes. Most of the replies to this post boggle?ÿthe mind.?ÿ Of all things one would think woul...

Zero % for more than 20 years

John did a great job on this. I agree there is an easement. I dont agree there is a boundary by acquiescence. You have testimony that the adjacent own...

Agree with Peter. Using hyd. nuts is nuts for any longer than the survey takes. We've seen the city move the hyd. and use it over. Did the following c...

Bill A careful level run is best. Agreed. Sometimes the best is not called for or needed to perform the task at hand and another way can save thousand...

The premise of this posting is how to bring datum into a project site , not how to topo after that. I look at static GPS as ?ÿlonger distance height t...

We used to run levels 20 miles and think nothing of it. We now use GPS to transfer heights into topo sites. Come on guys and gals. Time to confess.?ÿ ...

No I have to operate it myself. ??ÿ?ÿ?ÿ

It's not the geoid. I'm betting on wrong datum designation. And yes we have seen it before. In our software it's the difference between (NAD83 No_Tran...

And this is why friends dont let friends calibrate.

UPDATE The plan is to use a FARO scanner to meet the spec.?ÿ Is that possible??ÿ

My idea is unscientific. Measure the diameter and find a similar tree in the same bunch where you can observe it the normal way and call it the same. ...

We've noticed poorer RTK quality this time of year in the afternoons for several years. In the winter its fine. We've seen this enough to believe it's...

Nor can you always look to federal PLSS rules after land has passed into private ownership. As usual, it depends.....

Or maybe its two brothers whose father owned the NE/4 and the estate gave one half a part and the other half a part. Deeds were written without a surv...

I agree that most of the time 1/2 of the total area is not the proper interpretation of the description. But in private land not always. Most common e...

I don't give a d**n about elevations.

Interesting post and replies. I've been around bridge engineers for a long time. The last thing they would do is design a bridge and quantify bridge p...

STABILITY: C = MAY HOLD, BUT OF TYPE COMMONLY SUBJECT TO SURFACE MOTIONMost GSVS marks were built to last only during the GSVS project. They did set a...