Jim in AZ, post: 363080, member: 249 wrote: "My point was at some point you have to decide how far is too far. If I verify a corner and find it 3 feet...

Dan Patterson, post: 363032, member: 1179 wrote: Just set all the corners on every one of your jobs and you can't be wrong....it sounds like your corn...

Brian Allen, post: 362992, member: 1333 wrote: "So then you must decide how close to the record does a found pin have to be to be accepted. I can see ...

MightyMoe, post: 362974, member: 700 wrote: How are you "off" if there isn't any monuments, what are you "off" to? I'm not being argumentative, I real...

Around here corners aren't monumented. So there are no 'original corners' any corners found have been set by a retracing surveyor by using maps and o...

Gromaticus, post: 362728, member: 597 wrote: Why does the form expire in the first place? So govt workers can get paid to make a new one

I haven't used the 'new' one yet. I do a couple a week. When the new one is ready and fillable I will switch. Haven't had any issues yet tho using ...

One architect by me still does everything by hand. Then I have to plot the house to lay it out and call him to tell him the design doesn't close. T...

P_Bob, post: 361804, member: 1570 wrote: but any surveyor should be able to follow old blazes, even when not painted.I've never even seen a blaze

GMPLS, post: 361988, member: 8404 wrote: We use 8" dock spikes and they seem to last a long time. We routinely recover nails from 10-20 years ago. We ...

I also don't rely on nails or crosses to last forever. Crosses and drill holes in concrete will last longer than nails in road due to plows around h...

JTLAPOINTE, post: 361901, member: 11401 wrote: Here it depends on where it's located within the city limits, but most of the time the planning commiss...

Here you can't paint your house without going before a board for approval.

Dan Patterson, post: 361786, member: 1179 wrote: What reason would they have for not wanting them set? To make it cheaper? Yea basically. People jus...

GMPLS, post: 361777, member: 8404 wrote: Up here in northern NY we set monuments at all unmarked corners on just about every survey we do. I guess I c...

Dan Patterson, post: 361767, member: 1179 wrote: In NJ we have to set corners when doing a subdivision. If the map is a major subdivision (3 lots or ...

Jim in AZ, post: 361564, member: 249 wrote: I can't imagine having a law requiring(or allowing) subdivisions without a requirement for monumentation. ...

JTLAPOINTE, post: 361515, member: 11401 wrote: OK so it has come to my attention this is not always the norm, but we always use a 6' traverse nail wit...

In NY there is no monumentation laws. We don't monument corners when subdividing. They thought about changing the monumentation law a while back ...

Kent McMillan, post: 361509, member: 3 wrote: That is one of the advantages to using Star*Net to make the calculation. The input file is simple ascii ...