We locate trees that may indicate a boundary, and for architect site plans. Three direct laser reflection observations will collect the information ne...

...but you can't do this trick unless you use the goal post

Some would put the lines through each digit of the number 107 then pronounce it it "one oh seven" but the logic is even more humorous. You put a line ...

This must be from Randall Munroe's webcomic XKCD. 😆

Thank you to everyone who responded here. Perhaps surveyors should be required to explain their reasoning for rejecting monuments that have existed fo...

Aliene To alienate, transfer property or title. From the French adjective "that has been transferred."

In my world we use 12 inches as one foot, 39.37 inches as one meter, and a little dimensional analysis.

It can't be legit. Not one guy is pointing with a set of rolled up plans under his arm.

I will make a progress print from CAD and use that for notes like atmospheric, found survey marks with full description, and traverse notes. The print...

I agree with LES. A field book file (.fbk) is an ACSII file. You can understand the format to be the same as data we wrote in field books long ago. I...

In 2018 the Board made an advisory ruling about "compiled" plans. They don't have an archive of these rulings, as far as I can tell. Just the current ...

This map shows lots being created without the benefit of a survey, and monuments, hopefully only the monuments that were from the previous surveys tha...

It is stamped and signed.

It's the law in my jurisdiction to use U.S. Survey Feet.

So far I've only been able to tell that a "broken back curve" is an undefined colloquialism. Others have posted that Wattles states that it is a non-...

@KimBob I'm pretty sure I don't know what "Reaffirmed by Wattles" means. Care to elaborate?