Larry:Just because a surveyor surveys a disputed line after the judge rules,does not mean the surveyor got it right. For most of the boundary dispute...
I saw a deal once where it seemed like a simple update.However, there were several parties involved in the financing.Each wanted to be guaranteed the ...
Most layers in a GIS are less accurate than the surveying or land coordinate base. More and more, Iam seeing the GIS or planning people want more acc...
My buddy, Pablo, got distracted from his pipeline job from Louisiana to Florida.Somehow, he ended up in a hillbilly haven called Sebring. This was a ...
Part of the problem is terminology. I know all the localsurveying rednecks call a steel tape a chain and a transit is a gun.I think surveyors can do ...
PE's do not take an exam after passing the first one. Reciprocity meansthey get the other licenses for just filling out the application and payingthe...
I heard Darrell in D.C. talking about some water boundary thingcalled gradient boundary. He told some of the most hillariouswar stories about surveyi...
I think Michael Baker had 50 PE licenses. Of course, after thefirst one, reciprocity is easy for engineers.Somebody in Texas had 25 or 26 LS licenses...
Advocate ONLYAndy: I am sure that 'Georgia Land Surveying History and Law' by Faris Cadle is on your bookshelf. The early chapters give abunch of pi...
When Autodesk have updated uncivil3 enough times, they willprobably drop it like Softdesk and Carlson.
I often wonder about surveyors who JUST discovered a problem.They use the equipment for several years. It is the greatestthing forever. Then they di...
Being a foot off in elevation is a problem.If the house foundation is a foot high, we may say great -- better than a foot low.I worked on a condo proj...
That is a tough question but a good one. Surveyors rarely name thetype of fence post -- hedge post, railroad tie, 3-inch iron pipe, etc.That is why I...
The third picture looks familiar. They have refurbished theplace since I last visited several years ago.
If it is still open, there is a barbed wire in Dekalb, Illinois.
A surveyor down the road in KY got sued by his client. There wasn't enoughflagging on the pipe which she stepped on. It wasn't his pipe, he tiedribb...
Andy:Obviously everybody else surveys better than you or are more righteous than you.
Chapter 60 and 327 need to be known like the Ten Commandments.Elgin and Flowers are very anti-BLM and their manuals. State rulesin effect of the time...