For an ALTA prepatory to construction I'd rather have coordinates on solid control points with ties to the dimensioned boundary. Most boundary monumen...

I can't speak for California, but Oregon and Washington do not. It seems to me that such a requirement would compel a surveyor to replace every missi...

Great catch! I didn't notice that. One would think people had better things to do with their time.  

These are all "recording" states. Setting monuments triggers the requirement to file a "Record of Survey" in county records, which is a significant co...

Most Oregon Counties, including the one I deal with most often, require paper submissions. Paradoxically, it seems to be the backwater ones that are m...

Back around the turn of the century I worked for an outfit that ran 6 crews, all outfitted with identical Trimble 5603s. One crew, and one crew only, ...

That $1016 figure might be the monthly payment on 24 month financing.

Anything you might set up to shade the base would also block the signals.

It might be a good idea to include an estimate for restaking along with each proposal for a boundary.

I would be very surprised if any non-Trimble gear worked with Access. Or if any non-Lieca gear worked with Captivate. Or any non-Topcon gear with Magn...

.... forgive them; for they know not what they do. .... It is we, the surveyors, who should be shouldering our share of the blame here. We know hom...

I've not used it, but my son, who is also a surveyor, did. I can't give you the ins and outs of Emlid's weak points and strong but I can assure you th...

Nearly every person who has been licensed to survey in Oregon during the last 40+ years attended at least one, and often several, of Professor Schultz...

Let's eat grandma..... or ...... Let's eat, grandma. Little details can be so important.  

There is an episode of the old Perry Mason TV series which depicts a client encounter that I love. A very bossy, and wealthy, potential client starts...

Nope.

No doubt that they eventually will, and when they do it will require that the latest model Trimble total station be used.

I have found that working for my city. Jobs never really end. They transition from planning to design to construction to maintenance phases. And those...

Yea verily. I haven't done a lot of PW work, but some. At times we had the situation where the rodman was getting paid more than the PLS, even when th...

I'd love to see your pictures but they will not download.