I would run with the bearing and distance calls, so long as they reasonably follow the base of the hill in reality. If they clearly ran part way up th...

Yes. Code of Massachusetts Regulations. 250 C.M.R. 6.02 Survey Work Affecting Property Rights (7) Work Products. (c) Report the area of each surveye...

Please, don't stop there. I would very much like to see this case law. ?ÿ

"I was told that was all conservation land" is the line I heard most. "Who told you that?" - it was usually the RE agent.

While that's true on the surface, so to speak, there are aquifer protection regulations all over eastern Mass. New wells are tightly regulated in some...

Senior vs. junior rights pertain directly to the boundaries of the lots described. Would you be more comfortable if we changed the phrases to "senior ...

@norman-oklahoma As with so many things in surveying, it depends on the state you are in. In Mass. the Register of Deeds is a somewhat limited gatekee...

Hmmm ... I was thinking that in this useage, the word "described" is an adjective, since it modifies the noun "tract". As in "the wooded tract". Engl...

@jd00 Most states have "comity" provisions, not reciprocity. You still have to fulfill the requirements of the later state, but your experience and ex...

My B.S. is from the University of Maine, Surveying Engineering program. The course of study has changed quite a bit since I was there. It is now a Sur...

@jph I usually hit return as "Erase" is the . It should completely erase the AEC point objects. Typing out "Explode" should convert them to basic Auto...

File > Drawing Utilities > Remove Civil 3D Custom Objects This usually works for me. Carlson 2021.

I wonder if the people at LoInk Specialties would be interested in selling these hard to find, specialty items.

I wasn't going to watch the video until I read JPH's comment. I only got 1/2 way through it and decided I would fire that guy for exacerbating whateve...