A surveyor should only set a monument when it is necessary to indicate his opinion on a corner's location. The decision to set a monument is at the di...

lurker In a retracement survey, all a surveyor has to offer his client is an opinion on the boundary location. The opinion may indicate an existing ...

It seems I hold a minority opinion on the subject of pin cushions. I admit that pin cushions are confusing to landowners in the same way that a differ...

I can't say that I like pin cushions but I don't see them as a problem either. They do serve to inform the public in a couple of important ways. Bound...

From the 1980s I had a Radio Shack time radio to take to the field. With the radio on, I set a stop watch with a lap function to zero on 'minuet' then...

I want to back up to the beginning of this discussion. As a surveyor I prefer rules that are unwavering and absolute, such as 2 + 2 always equals 4....

I didn't mean to be critical of any method of surveying. What I did want to point out is that precision and redundancy are two different items of impo...

There is much to be said for maintaining a high level of precision. But I always thought that the value of redundancy was eliminating blunders. We sho...

  No to the first question, yes to the second, provided there is a significant distance between the two occupied points. In a case where the ...

All critical measurements of a boundary survey should have some element of redundancy. The closure of a traverse provides a check of all angles and di...

Should surveyors always base their surveys on Principles of Surveying or is there room for consideration of principles of law? To introduce the next...

Around here, clerks don't normally do anything outside of that required by statute. During my career surveys were indexed by the person commissioning ...

It's a mixed bag here in Arkansas. The clerk here on some things makes a marginal note on documents that have been updated to show the new location, s...

In the opening post, Norman_Oklahoma gave us two reasons of interest to surveyors. First is the court's application of facts to the legal argument tha...

The link given did not produce for me the whole text of the opinion.This one worked for me:

Before I go on with other exceptions where the principles of surveying are at odds with principles of law, I have some more observations of ambiguitie...

@kim I think there are a few things that you should consider. Surveyors do not have any authority over landowners, land tracks, or the boundaries t...

While I agree with the above, I would caution surveyors in the use of such evidence. It's a good idea to limit your opinion of the boundary location t...

Topo work is technical, primarily measurement of what already exists. It can be a very complicated process. And yes it can waste a lot of money in a p...

@eapls2708 Some of your assumptions are wrong. Judging by your avatar photo, you're of an age I use that photo because it makes me look much y...