The question of how to properly double proportion a corner when the as-surveyed data was in state plane was a major question on the Washington State t...

If you are uncomfortable setting corners with RTK, as I am, I suggest the following strategy. Set 3 well spaced control points in good sky areas with ...

At the extreme limits of the intended zone coverage for the Portland area LDP- about 50 miles by 50 miles outside of central Portland somewhere in the...

For the record, I did a best fit arc through the points using Civil3d. That routine doesn't allow for fixing the radius, but it calcs out close. Tight...

I am assuming that the points you are importing are projected grid coordinates. It means that the software will use an elevation of 500m to compute th...

Monday morning for me. Just in general I get more office work done after 3:30 in the afternoon, every day of the week.

In my experience what you describe is commonplace. In 36 years in this business I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've been g...

Metadata. I whole heartedly agree. You can lead a horse to water ....... My city recently contracted an engineering consultant to redesign a short ...

I'd proceed with shipping the battery to Dias & Dias.

Stories like these just make me ....... so much happier that my state has a defined set of low distortion projections. Nevertheless, it is always n...

in 2013, which was during my sojourn to Oklahoma, an EF5 tornado ran through Moore, OK. Where it crossed I-35 it was quite concentrated. A couple hund...

That is what would have to be done to ensure that the easement was properly created, if no particular attention was paid - or could be paid - to the o...

If there were separate documents creating the new tract and creating the easement, and the easement document was recorded first, before the new tract ...

To use Google effectively you have to know what question to ask.

The Doctrine of Merger is one of those things that I crammed into my brain for the big test, then forgot all about until reminded of it several years ...

All of which effectively prevents showing coordinates on a map in CA. But don't forget to add a Prop 65 warning label.

No. No way. Not around here.

Lake County seems to be a shoestring operation. In the 1970's the county population was half what it is today. They don't seem to have an engineering ...

The recording fee is only a fraction of the whole cost of filing an ROS. Even when it is near $500, as it is in my home county.