Ours is a mouthful - The Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, the initial point is just Southwest of Phoenix on the alignment of Baseline Road on a ...

Ive done it to get the minimum square footage of new lots in a subdivision, the planners in the City of Eugene were very particular, 4500 square feet ...

  I can attest to that, our acquisition staff had to get a 1' easement from all properties on the project road in Sitka. One of the homeowner's...

Well, at least in that scenario, they're not pulling the pin and putting it "right back where it was"

Saw a report about two weeks ago warning that due to the early heat the rattlers are out early.

We find a lot where the plat or Record of Survey was recorded before the pins were set, when we find a pin that's almost exactly an even foot off, was...

I make that face just thinking about planners

When I was at AKDOT, I was reviewing a set of plans for a project and noticed that the survey sheet, which was drawn by the engineering drafting pool ...

In all my years of field work in the Mid Hudson Valley plus the time in AK, not doing much field work and three years in the Army (stationed in Augsbu...

I call this one of the sins of the CAD programs, in that the newer drafters haven't been taught about making the outer bearing continuous, combined wi...

Why'd they hire you if they can just use the GIS?

I was mistaken; there's actually TWO PK's in the quarter corner cap.  

We have a few pictures of pin cushions in the office, one has a PK nail within a BLM cap, apparently that cap wasn't close enough to their mathematica...

@andy-bruner From what I understand the Alaska Road Commission designers were former RR design engineers, and this is when the top speed of your av...

Oh the many, many times I wish I really could have done that, and not restricted to EIT's, but PE's also, particularly when I was at AKDOT&PF

@ken-salzmann When that GIS first came out (I was at County DPW at the time) they showed my property line right down the middle of my house.

@squirl 'bd gives the bearing and distance option. I still use the old fashioned @dist<bearing