the fact that the surveyor's liability only extended as far as the cost of the survey That would be a legal opinion offered by a person unqualified...

... work should stand alone and no disclaimer should be needed... True, but mistakes happen. If you do a little job for a homeowner to build a fenc...

A much more effective disclaimer (than that recited in the OP) would be something like this: This survey was made for Mr. Bob Jones for the purpose ...

Today's swag update! I think this is my favorite so far. Cool! White hockey pucks!

I heard the bit about clean conversions for the initial point for both international feet and meters,...Can anyone elaborate? For instance, in my l...

There is no advantage to having your backsight point being true north from your setup point. It is only necessary that you know what the bearing to th...

That's not what I heard ... You may well be correct. I was not listening in a pristine environment either.

Ar thu speling misteaks in the uhrijanal? The author's financial liability is probably limited in this way, with or without the disclaimer. But his p...

Major takeaways - a listing of proposed zone setups for all states and territories is now available on the NGS website, and the release of NATRF2022 w...

....has this wise ol guy seemingly doing good work.....until you see it..... One of the things this guy is doing wrong is wearing the wrong color h...

I loved my HP-41cx and HP-48gx as much as anyone, but HP no longer means professional quality. It now means cheap consumer grade crap. The HP-35s was...

No data collector/controller in sight. It may be at the rover rod, but if so, what is this guy doing there?

The practice of photogrammetry is included in the definition of Land Surveying in Oregon. There is also a separate photogrammetrist licensing in Orego...

As a first pass in autocad I placed a point of my correct cord first I rotated my dataset to align with it then I moved the dataset linearly to the go...

To the surveyor coordinates are not data. They are the product of data. When you collect total station data you are collecting horizontal angles, zeni...

It is really unlikely that NGVD29 is your answer. It is, indeed, a "United States thing". I hope someone with local knowledge will chime in. NAVD88 w...

When this warning was issued late Friday afternoon I assumed that it would happen over the weekend. False start?

You should be slapped forwards and backwards for putting a mag nail in a crack. I agree, and feel pretty much the same about crosscuts. But I've g...

I had a manager who wanted the drawing to have all the same layers turned on and off whenever he returned to a drawing. I 2nd the "Layer States" re...

Battery powered rotary hammer with a chisel bit. Drill a circle of small holes to start. Continue with chisel bit. If you haven't one of those substit...