Property owners commonly stake the corners they perceive as theirs. Granted, they don't often use capped iron rods to do it - they usually use fence p...

That was certainly true at one time. IMO they have broken that cycle over the last several releases.

If you need a copy of that book try Alibris.com. They have a number of copies available. I've ordered stuff from them before and the experience was go...

You don't need any sort of survey certification to work for a surveyor in the US and make a good living at it - if you have useful skills. And you co...

I used C3d 2024 until last week. It is perfectly stable. I loaded 2025 last Monday and it seems to be fine also. It is seemlessly working with the dra...

Years ago I had the radio go out on a Trimble 5603. The problem was that the antenna was compromised (ie/broken), which caused the radio to overheat a...

My first exposure to Condo plans was in British Columbia, in metric. Even though the building plans were still in feet and inches. So that says someth...

The inspector should be looking at the stamped and signed survey map in addition to the monuments. Also, in each of the states I'm licensed in, the ...

"...they totally ignore the elements of the spiral and just do the long chord. "Not ignoring. The bearing of the connecting tangents, the length, and ...

A spiral is a curve of constantly varying radius. Here is how the Oregon DOT describes spirals - this example is from their Right of Way Engineering M...

I use the best fit line routine - err .... routinely. But I had never thought of using it that way. Very clever.

I read it as a life estate as well. Persons A & B do not necessarily have to release their rights for a sale to occur. The buyer could simply con...

Not to be beating a dead horse, but this summary of an eminent domain proceeding has come across my desk this morning. And this was for a simple corne...

People are asking about this negative coordinates business because it is very unusual, and we are all wondering if it has something to do with the eff...

For the record, 6 seconds misclosure on a 6 legged traverse is infinitesimally tiny. Even with a 1 second gun, as the 1 second rating is for a pointin...

There is no one right way to do it. The way you initially suggest is the common way. But you could arbitrarily decide to throw it all in one angle - p...

Helmert's Transformation. A least squares best fitting.

"What kind of scale factors are you all dealing with in Oregon?" 0.99999 (five nines) or better, generally. Scaling distortions on the order of 0.01 f...

I use Star*Net to combine GPS and Terrestrial data, routinely. Have done so for nearly 30 years. I have also done it in Liscad (Lieca) a few times and...