Temperature as a factor?

My opinion is based on the distinction of technical work compared with a professional evaluation or opinion. I like the AI response I got for "state...

In my opinion, the only topo/elevation work that should be limited to a survey license is a professional opinion of the flood location/depth derived f...

This is one of those discussions that make me glad I'm retired. Some of these statutes are directed at surveyors and couldn't be held against landowne...

Was the line nothing more than a "paper" survey? The 80 chain distance and lack of topo calls in the eastern half do seem odd. But nothing in the note...

My wife does genealogy with years of reading old script. She agrees with bill93 that abbreviated words often had the last letter raised with a dot und...

Note that running East he "set a" something.   Running West he "set the" something.   I read that to mean he moved the monument wha...

I think that basing present boundary opinion on possible future events is disingenuous. Furthermore, there is no need to make all corners either con...

The original post implies that a portion of the original drawing was reproduced in the revised map, rather then using the information to create a new ...

My boundary is a stone wall. There it is! The boundary is the wall. Why do surveyors feel the need to refine the boundary to a mathematical vert...

"existence of numerous exceptions to legal precedents" It would be an arbitrary and capricious act for courts to make numerous exceptions to legal p...

"I would say.. not necessarily." I agree because I have no case law on point. Thus there is an element of speculation on my part. And secondly, it ...

I read something last week that inspired me to start this discussion. "A young man knows the rules, but an old man knows the exceptions." Maybe I like...

A survey of a track is an opinion of the location of three or more lines defining the boundary. It is not clear from the original post whether the con...

I have seen witnesses limited to yes or no answers. This is more common in cross-examination. A lawyer cannot demand a yes or no answer but he can req...

I'm not fond of anybody regulating what I must or must not show on a retracement survey plat. Such a document is an affidavit. It conveys the actions ...

@mikelv If you are still looking to produce paper hold-down devices, I suggest you look at 3d printing using a hard plastic. Once you have a design...

To find the location of boundary lines I have often found it useful to start at the beginning. Once Upon a Time there was no R/W, and then there was. ...