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...

HARN, which stands for High Accuracy Regional Network was a current thing in the late '90s. It is seriously obsolete now. In my area it differs from t...

Water lines (also sanitary & storm) are typically owned by the public agency and not by a franchise utility. So the useage fees are a nullity. An...

"What makes you think that because a ROW was expanded, that anyone has to move anything?" Utilities do not just get to use rights of way for free. Whe...

Eminent Domain, condemnation, rural land, pennies on the dollar, simple, effective, and consistent. These are operations by which the public can acqui...

"A different way, a more consistent and possibly better, more permanent way would be to expand the right of way. All done with the stroke of a pen. Th...

"Unless i’m missing the bigger picture?" 35 miles of right of way acquisition would be on the county dime. Acquiring these easements is the utility's ...

Talk to the airline. I'm not sure of all the ins and outs, but my son, also a surveyor, has travelled with his equipment. It involves some preplanning...

"I guess you would need to know when each county road was created in order to know which criteria to apply." That is, at least, somebody would. In thi...

First, why is the project on state plane and not on the appropriate OCRS low distortion projection? Pet peeve of mine. Second, it's a personal thing ...

Li-ion batteries are pretty robust and will endure all sorts of abuse, but one thing they don't like is to be allowed to go totally and completely dea...

<div>I have had numerous batteries of various types recelled by surveybattery.com over the years and it has always been a good experience. They ...

It could well have been that those gaunt children were Meiser's own.