A monument governs if it is called for and undisturbed. A bent iron has clearly been disturbed (I'm assuming that the deed does not call for a bent ir...

It is possible to store a point as only Lat/Long or XYZ in terms of the current projection - you now have nothing to recalc with In theory, if you...

In the scenario you have presented you are making 3d measurements between the base and the rover. If the position of the base is amended, the endpoint...

... they are still using the same photos with the same employees ... Pet peeve of mine is websites that crow about their progressive thinking and c...

because it's EXACTLY what POB did when they converted rpls.com to a new system That wasn't all they did, by a long shot. They would have survived t...

... showing both would create confusion ... I heard a story at the convention some years ago - ALTA on an industrial site, one of the deeded bearin...

... is there any limit to how much the location can deviate from the recorded description? The question & answer would hinge on whether the loc...

Option 2 is acceptable, to me. I don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good.

Why bother recording a description at all if it will have no impact on the easement's location? Deeds have two purposes, 1) to transfer title and ,...

Think of the pipeline as a monument which is called for in the deed. It controls over the bearings and distances.

I happened to see this youtube by Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, about the value of paper maps just last night. I believe that the thinking applies...

@danielj Amongst other things continental scale geodetic networks would be accomplished exclusively with GNSS, whereas the total station is far more...

As I go along in this AEC business I become more and more aware of the fact that surveying is a nearly trivial cost to a project compared to Architect...

To me, he seems interested in network design rather than adjustments in general. Would you think that the principles that apply to a continental sc...

just as we can say that a parallel/meridian is a line with a particular latitude/longitude What you have written is OK, notwithstanding some esoter...

There is this book. And you might check out this from Caltrans.