As for turning rounds - if using a robot it's automated and crazy easy to turn rounds (presuming that you have a pair of targets to set up) so why wou...

They can and should be, but it doesn't always happen. At least around here it doesn't.

We had an example here where our fair city had acquired right of way through an eminent domain process.. so court ruling. 20 years later the street i...

@bstrand Do you get a title report every time you do a boundary? Does the question make you feel more like you should?

@pls8xx Note that Humphreys has an alternative legal access, denoted on the plat. It seems that route is a good deal longer trip from the nearest p...

@bstrand Another recent Oregon case, Dejardin v. Bonfiglio, refers to creating easements in a deed of transfer as "well settled" law without much d...

For the moment, no court has expressly ruled that the Huls easement is invalid. If I was advising the Huls I would argue that since no one would buy a...

I expect that is just about what NATRF2022 will do, when it gets here.

There is also the Canadian System. I can't recall the acronym. In Oregon there is the ORGN real time network. Lots of states have such things. Assu...

Testimony of people with local knowledge is a valid source of boundary evidence.

@surveygrug I suspect that your spec is going to apply to the position relative to adjacent monuments, not to the network accuracy. This report ...

The local setting is appropriate then. I'm not saying your approach is wrong but it isn't mine. I'd keep the control "unscaled", adjust in the project...

I've had only a quick look but it jumps out at me that you have the coordinate system set to "Local" while you say that you are holding GPS'd azimuth ...

I suspect - they ask for your bank info so they can pay you a retainer by electronic transfer. BOOM! They have your bank info, enough of it at least, ...

I have had to replace a couple of these that have bent on me, so I'm thinking that this might be it. This picture is from the Allen Precision website....

Oregon's DOT has detailed instructions on writing legal descriptions for right of way and easement acquisition in its Right of Way Engineering Manual....