Hey KW, I just figured it out. You're just covering your a$$ on all those 1/16 corners you set. I think there are only a few of us left that aren't go...

ThanksThe County GIS expert says its not a metes and bounds, its aliquot. Sounds like he has support here so I won't press the issue although I don't ...

So You Are Saying LinebenderHere we go getting hung up on measurements again. The road was established on section line 66 ft wide. You can't tell for...

WA-IDWhere do you begin? I don't know. there is no use repeating what's already been posted. Not tht it matters but as far as this particular survey g...

Good point. Do you connect the dots or just map the dots?

I beleive every time a corner monument is established for the first time with the intention of following the deed or the PLSS plan and relied on it is...

Quarter corners would be a mile apart but I know what you meant. One is a sixteenth and the other a quarter. I understand the beleif that the line HAS...

Linebender, A Different Standard For M&B DescriptionsMost professional surveyors are up to the task on writing M & B descriptions. There seems...

You can't sell what you don't own and you can't lose what you didn't have.

Good observation Sean. I noticed that in first grade. Then when I began to survey the law told me I had to map the world flat by measuring on the hori...

The line tree is a good analogy. No one would argue (I trust) that a line tree bends the line. When a monument has existed unchallanged for 35 years i...

Aliquot part

You Assume Too Much LinebenderWe are working in a rectangular system where the rectangle sides have been run east and north. Why is it such a leap of ...

Maybe I can express this another way. The section line isn't anywhere until a monument marks it.

Every answer I expected has been posted. 1. Hold the monuments2. The monuments may indicate possession but the section line is the straight line.3. Th...

...and a dispute where none existed.

If the work is useless don't use it.

This post was not made to trash GIS. I saw some awesome things GIS does. Just don't advertise it as a survey seminar when for all but one session it's...