November 14, 1989. The first work day after the Remembrance Day holiday (Canada), the same year as the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Someone should make a seminar just on this stuff I believe that our friend Jon Payne has been doing just that.

0.70mm for the boundary of the subject parcel 0.35mm for right of way lines. Sometimes 0.50mm, typically when the job is to determine a right of way....

Not that it really matters. You go out there and see if you can find something, anything, and then you reverse engineer the description of what you fi...

so the entire radius is the front lot line? The solid curved blue line - the one that passes across your concrete driveway and comes with 9.0' of ...

The County Surveyors and Recorders here require all recorded maps and documents to be all black on white. No color, no graytones, no hatching. But I u...

I am not familiar with the acronym "CDS". Otherwise this problem is just another day at work. If you are the homeowner, and close enough is good enoug...

I'm lucky, I guess, in that the tax/GIS mapping here in Oregon is fairly reliable - within the limits of accuracy of the underlying aerial photography...

I tell them that if they need a survey I'm their Huckleberry. The survey will show the existing legal boundaries and any apparent encroachments. And r...

The rotary laser and Lenker rod are more the tools of construction. Not a lot of us have first hand experience with them. They have precision and rang...

Survey? No. Sketch? Maybe. Survey is the fieldwork part, and the Map or Record of Survey is, really, just a report of the results. Without the fieldw...

If there is physical evidence of an otherwise undocumented access strip being used on the "west side" of this tract (ie/ an apparent easement by presc...

Wouldn't 45 also be correct? I draw it up in CAD and confirm that 30° is the answer. Waiting for the simple geometry method.

“If we receive the signed contract and non-refundable 50% retainer fee on or before 07.31.2023, then we anticipate completing the survey (weather/work...

we anticipate completing the survey (weather/workload dependent) on or before 08.31.2023 Suppose you take your truck to the shop for maintenance. T...

why not specify dates? Simple. On 8/3 you send a proposal promising delivery on 8/31. The client delays giving NTP until 8/25, but your proposal st...

How do the good people of the board respond to potential clients that are in a big hurry, but they're price shopping? First, you key delivery date ...

Sad, but SLCC's loss will be somebody else's gain. One healthy program is better than two on life support. JB, the presentation you gave at the PLS...

Sorry all! Missed the attachment. See image. It is rare for a monument to be set with its top sticking out of the ground by a foot or more. I s...