That's not as flat as your usual survey territory out on the Cape. Applying Google-Fu to the mystery, I find that you are on the border between Italy ...

I submitted a plan to Land Court once where the lot I was dividing was shown as one of two lots on a 1950 era Land Court plan, with the boundary betwe...

I doubt that the conveyance is invalidated. Conveyancing still follows the same legal principles as non-titled land. The rules for preparing plans and...

Impossible? Balderdash. We had K& E transits on tripods with fixed length legs, and no slidey thing on top. The leveling screws had a remarkable r...

1" = 10 rods might fit your plan sheet better.

Very cool.

Why is it fraudulent? The surveyor proposed to set the monuments, the client declined to pay for the service, the monuments remain as proposed until s...

I worked for a surveyor in the 1980's who charged $150 for mortgage inspections. We never used the theodolite, just the tape and "clapped 90's" from t...

They make metal detectors that work under water. Maybe use one of those, from a boat, and a submersible camera to identify your iron, then put a tall ...

IrfanView. You will have to install a plugin with it in order to view and convert PDF files. Instructions are on the IrfanView website. The program is...

Working part time, even for anther surveyor, is one thing. Building your own business while competing with your employer is quite another. Part of an ...

The deed you took the description from may have been made in 1953, but not many people were measuring land using poles as distance units then. It is l...

Looks like somebody mis-typed one of the E or W bearing quadrants on the short lines at some point (or mis-typed a N to S quadrant, or possibly both e...

I recently ditched a wireless mouse and keyboard because the mouse was too uneven on the screen. The cursor would hang while trying to slide it over, ...