Huh? ORS 96 hasn't been amended in a long time. It has been substantially unchanged since 1859.

It looks pretty good. I don't see any major blunders. But what I would do now is un-fix all those coordinates you are holding fixed. Instead of " !!! ...

OUAT the outfit I was with kept data separated by source crew, so they could identify who had made errors. IMO, that smacked of scapegoating. It lead ...

Some data collectors will not allow reuse of numbers under certain conditions. Plus, a(n unfounded) fear of overwriting previously collected data.

I've taken some heat on these pages over the years for being skeptical about found monuments that don't match the record dimensions - within statistic...

StarNet will produce a .gnd file, if you ask it to, that is a scaled, translated, and rotated version of the grid coordinates. Usually, for me, when I...

One doesn't have to be all that clever to build a fence that is on the line but doesn't disturb corner markers.

If the pins are placed before construction of the roads and services in a typical subdivision (as they are in British Columbia) I'd expect - and have ...

I may be misunderstanding, but I think that the question here is "how close does a fence have to be to the line to be considered as on the line?" I'm...

In the beginning CAD colors equalled a pen, of a certain thickness, in the plotter. So color equalled lineweight. If, for example, green was set to b...

The use of the colors doesn't stop at the painting. Utilities are buried with color coded locator tape or wire. That helps the locator know just what ...

My comment about 0.05' accuracy clearly does not apply to every surface type of a site. The OP claims he only needs to survey graded, sodded ground. B...

Our city has a non-potable "purple pipe" water supply system that parallels the potable system. The water they deliver is used for fire protection and...

Quite true. ±0.05' for finished hard surfaces, probably about ±0.2' for graded ground, and ±0.5' for natural ground.

Don't think in terms of contour intervals. Think in terms of the accuracy of your digital terrain model (DTM). In order to be able to effectively des...

BTW - your steel tape will lengthen in warm summer weather and contract as the weather cools. Also, the amount of tension you apply will affect the me...

I’m a Portland area surveyor and am familiar with that monument. It was damaged like that the first time I saw it in the mid 1990’s. Use the cross. ...

Interesting choice of job title given the expectations. It seems we have different ideas of what a "crew chief" does. I'm seeing "Senior Project Manag...