A really common thing in the Portland area in the early days was for 200 foot square city blocks to be subdivided into 25' x 100' lots. People would p...

You don't have to believe me about merger doctrine. Google it. But the long and the short of this is that if the agency with permit issuing authority ...

The doctrine does have some application in other areas of law, such as contracts. But in a boundary law application, it is about easements. Nowhere do...

That isn't the Doctrine of Merger. Merger has to do with the extinquishment of easements when both the dominant and servient estates come under common...

True, as long as you have plenty of other work to do.

The PLS is hired and paid by the landowner to determine boundaries, not to populate the government's GIS system. Our competition for work is not alw...

At the center point of your zone there will be a place where the defining meridian and latitudinal lines meet. Normally one might assign the coordina...

With state plane, as a rule of thumb, figure about 0.01' / 100 feet for scale distortion.

I'm guessing that surveyors of 100 years from now will be most concerned with about the same things that surveyors today are. And that is relative acc...

For what possible purpose?

BTW, this August I reach 5 years in government service after 30 years on the private side. When I signed on their were plans to add 5 positions to our...

@bluebook1807 You seem to be inside the belly of the beast. Please share any facts that you have. Without facts, I can only speculate.

Again, attempting to keep it apolitical ..... Federal government employees were offered buyouts across the board. Evidently a number of NGS people d...

Have some mylar stickers printed up. They endure the weather well. I also put some of them in very insconspicuous places (like inside the rod tube, un...

Here in my fair city, at some time in the past, elevation benchmarks monumented with PK nails in a lead plug in concrete curb were established. While ...

The best way to recruit is going to be word of mouth. If your staff is willing to contact ex-coworkers and recommend your outfit you should be in good...