Portable drill holes are real handy to have when you get into a tough survey. You should keep a few in the survey chariot.

Ray Hintz wrote Hector the Vector, and a bunch of other utilities. You may find what you need on this page:

You mentioned doing this as efficiently as possible. Is it possible that hitting all the control points 2 - 24 with the PPK GPS is overly redundant? ...

imaudigger, post: 431490, member: 7286 wrote: Probably not public money - professional services contracting is usually qualification based - not low b...

Does your state have a law prohibiting perpetuities? Mass. statutes have time limits for these types of deed restrictions between grantor / grantee i...

paden cash, post: 429492, member: 20 wrote: Here's an outfall line I had the pleasure (!?) of working on when planned and built in the early '70s. Ab...

I would be more than skeptical. I would say with no call in the deed (or in the deed history) for the shoreline, no plan to show the shoreline as a b...

When working at another company, I was subpoenaed to a deposition by the other side in an encroachment/trespass dispute. Fortunately, I was able to g...

No such critter in Mass. Most, if not all, of the counties had an engineering department that provided surveying and engineering services to the town...

For the convenience of my message board cohorts, I put my states in my screen name (and didn't use an alias).Then when I was laid off, the Maine licen...

In Kennedistan, we don' need no steenkin' baselines or meridians.

Chris Duncan, post: 423016, member: 7540 wrote: Probably, we will just end up fixing this mess at no cost to the owner. With a new plat and deed of ex...

Interesting question, and since you brought it up, I would say it is a valid concern with regard to the work that you are doing. I, too, show the gen...

Rich., post: 422887, member: 10450 wrote: If the going rate is $1,200 then that's the rate they will fork over for it. If they need it that day they ...

And thank you for letting us know how it all shook out.

Yes, you can cut and paste your data to put the traverse at the end of the set up, but I've never had a problem like this. We usually measure travers...

It looks to me as though the intent was to reserve the under water lands. Did you grantor search the developer to see if they did convey the land und...