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.

We worry that AI will take over the world, but so far .... not a lot of substance there.

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.

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, ...