In woodworking that is known as a breadboard edge. It's a rather common way of finishing the end of a large surface. Yes, the purpose is to prevent, ...

Speaking for Oregon, there was a period of time in the '70s and '80s where the DOT work products of record are cartoonishly bad. Prior to that and aft...

In Oregon the right of way descriptions are (almost) all written in station/offset terms. So that would be my preference on any mapping. ODOT has been...

OK guys. Suppose Pedro was in your area and making the same ask. Would you be willing to participate and if so, under what conditions? Be polite.

Here is a guide from the NGS that is worth your time: UserGuidelinesForSingleBaseRealTimeGNSSPositioningv.3.1APR2014-1.pdf I suggest setting up ba...

One of those dying art parts of surveying. It's been a bunch of years since I last turned an angle while looking through the telescope.

Yes, PLSO publishes a magazine called "The Oregon Surveyor". Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon - The Oregon Surveyor I prefer articles that add...

Clearing cache and cookies on the laptop seem to have helped there. I'm having less success, so far, with the iphone.

I anyone else having trouble logging in and posting?

As appalling as it is, I think that the practice of simply downloading coordinates from the dc and going with that is more common than the alternative...

I work in the Oregon LDP for my area for nearly everything. I'm always working with NEZ coordinates, not importing LLH to data collectors. I do freque...

I suspect that the "lines on the plot map" were GIS lines. Never mind the details of what GIS is. Just know that these lines are intended to inventory...

At the employer which I was first introduced to C3d they had point group hierarchies to what, I thought, was an absurdity. You had to stack about a do...

Not sure how helpful it would be when someone could just mess with the monument after the letter was dated, but if someone wants to pay for it then I'...

I can visualize doing surveys on multiple 11"x17" sheets. They would be in a rather different form from that which I am accustomed to. In Oklahoma we...

@mightymoe Surveys in Oregon and Washington are required to be on 18" x 24" and I find that, often, to be too small to easily include all the neces...

@mightymoe When you record one of your surveys is there any restriction on paper size?

I have found that bad rod height settings account for a majority of failures in resections and in StarNet adjustments as well.