What you need is a program that will transform (translate, rotate & scale) your assumed coordinates into UTM coordinates. You will need at least t...

We actually appreciate the "long back story". The more information provided, the better we are able to provide a reasonable answer. As Bill93 said, a ...

You are largely correct. Before the EDM was integrated into the theodolite, it was a completely separate machine. The earliest ones were mounted on th...

Yoda says, "Such foolish worries, you have."

Should there be marks? If so, are they on every corner or just one? There might be markers, of one type or another. There might never have been marke...

If you don't know where the lot lines fall on the ground, and none of your family can show you the corner markers (if any exist), then you are going t...

It seems you lack a finely-tuned bureaucratic mind. All that hoopla, when all you had to do was make your field managers sign a receipt in triplicate ...

I've never heard the term. Reading the Wikipedia article, it looks like the term was used more down south. In New England, after receiving a patent o...

Yes, get a job. What you learn on the job will help you immensely to understand the surveying course work. In my freshman Plane Surveying course, the ...

@holy-cow It looks to me as though you might actually be agreeing with aliquot, without realizing it: "What needs to happen in many cases is to budg...

"Muzzy Dam" was called for as a corner in a deed. When I found the dam, it was only half built out of field stones. One of the locals told me that the...

@jph I think that was his point - the example question for the FS exam did not provide the only correct answer as a choice.  

I took a quick look at your profile, and you indicate Massachusetts as the state you are in. At the risk of discovering that I'm the surveyor who hasn...

Eyeglasses. When I wore contacts, I occasionally got bug spray on them. DEET melts plastic, so just a couple little droplets ruined them. Plus the hea...

And if you watch enough pornography, you might even spot some "linear monuments". 😯  

@jph I don't know of any specific definition for "linear monument". The statute gives you some examples to work from. I think maybe it's like the def...

@jph How the easement is described is irrelevant. Is the easement configured in a physically linear fashion? Would you look at a map and say "that's ...

@jph I would ask, "is this easement a linear monument?" If the answer is "no", then M.G.L. Ch. 183 Sec. 58 does not apply. The full easement parcel i...

@jph A right of way is merely an easement, with a specific bundle of rights. Given the facts you presented, the power line easement is clearly a line...

I say plan to study more frequently, for shorter periods of time. I spent an hour every day, at least 5 days of the week studying, rather than trying ...