The sad facts of life today are that it isn't really enough to just say that you are granting "an easement" or even "An easement for such and such pur...

Everywhere population and density exceeds certain levels. And what you did 50 years ago - or even 25 - doesn't apply here.

I absolutely do use TOGETHER WITH and EXCEPTING THEREFROM, etc. Nevertheless, I would not use it for the purpose shown in your example - to append a d...

Yes, they are sized for the 100 year event. They don't routinely fill up. That is intentional. The ground water these things address is near surface. ...

Define "qualifier language". If you mean including language that specifies that the description is of an easement of some sort or a right of way de...

Don't be obtuse. The water stays in retention until it soaks in. And if the snow melt on a site is absolutely getting into the site retention system ...

These rules about retaining storm water on site - driven by Congress via the EPA and not local agency whims - have been in effect around here for a ge...

Not using drones here - so far. We are subscribed to a service called "Nearmap" which allows us to download spatially correct (+/-) aerials to use as ...

This is equally true of any private side position. And perhaps more likely.

Who is going to sign off on your experience forms? In other words, staying in your current position may be fatal to getting licensed.

The F2f in C3d does take some effort to set up. Templates & Styles at a minimum. Descriptor Keys to sort points to layers and marker styles per t...

I'm thinking that conflict of interest is the very least of your problems here. Nevertheless, it's not a conflict to survey adjoining properties, as l...

They can. I minimize my use of the survey database. You can import the points directly to the drawing - from a csv or txt file - where they are Cogo P...

The survey can also say that the monument is not there right now, but it was at exactly such and such a spot at some specific previous time. That info...

As surveyor for a mid-sized city - about 20 square miles in area - I am in the process of building and maintaining a StarNet job of measurements inclu...

Such as when answering academic textbook questions. Otherwise rare. In urban surveying we do have to restore destroyed PLSS monuments from time to t...

I'm mostly an urban surveyor, so I don't get a lot of practice in this area..... I have found that textbooks are all over the place with some of thes...

Also no statement regarding which projection is being used. That's kind of a glaring omission.

As mapping experts we surveyors forget that a lot of people just cannot comprehend a map. A map might as well be hieroglyphics to them. A great many p...

I was a Trimble user for many years, buts it's been over 4 years now since I last touched one, and 8 since I was a regular user. Back then, there was...