I've always known of the bolts in the rock until recently when I read about the buried monuments. Pretty neat.

Imo once you go robotic you cannot go back. At least I can't. It's just 1000x more efficient

We do ECs on everything. Generators, ac units etc. To me it's silly. I'd rather just write a letter with the elevation rather than filling in an EC...

We sign and seal elevation certificates with no boundary, don't we?I'll cut to the chase... if it was me, I wouldn't sign it. I wouldn't explain, I...

I guess it's not just me who walks around on vacation with his head down staring at the sidewalks and lot corners....

hlbennettpls, post: 356105, member: 10049 wrote: All of this talk about ELOMA's and audits makes me nervous. I'm in the process of doing my first one...

Any old fences? If so, what do they agree with? 8 feet is a lot. Sometimes I find like 6 inches over 800 feet but I usually never proportion as on...

For our surveys / final as-builts it's simple, no pay no survey. No pdf. No cad. No copies. You want that C.O. you need to pay 100% drives some...

Sean R-M, post: 355563, member: 7138 wrote: So when I do a public records request am I not asking for final documents? This is not the first time tha...

Well hopefully once the EC gets officially released on the website they will have the word version as well

We have done a few and just fill the page 2 section out for A Zones with no BFE. Or we just don't take them as we aren't going to charge enough to d...

So my question, from a colonial state surveyor, would be....If "surveyors today wouldn't notice a marked stone if they saw one" and "most" surveyors ...

Exactly. This way I'm not ever locating the utilities. Just locating paint which I can at least guarantee is accurate

It's so varied state to state these laws. We have a lot of these type of subdivisions in old sections of ny. The old roads were definitely not dedic...

I've began contemplating not labeling the lines as gas lines or water lines and just "blue" "yellow" "red" etc. Pertaining to the color markings ...

joabmc, post: 355401, member: 10395 wrote: I love calling FEMA and getting the "Map Specialist". It's better when you call 3 times, get 3 different p...

I have found 811 will not field mark a site unless you will be digging or excavating soon. But instead I usually explain we are making the plans to ...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 354618, member: 291 wrote: Well, I generally agree with the consensus of this discussion, (where they landed, is where they a...

Brian Allen, post: 354615, member: 1333 wrote: "I just meant where that particular block 'moves' over from where it was supposed to be, on the side th...

I agree that the platted dimensions yield to the original lines as ran. That is obvious. The fence lines (assuming they were constructed with refe...