If you can't determine whether you are an "advocate" or a "disinterested third party" you probably don't have a clue what professional ethics are. Th...

SteveThe doctrine of acquiescence is applicable even when a deed unambiguously declares the boundary line of adjacent parcels, the court of appeals he...

SteveA surveyor found a monument he considered original and filed a corner record. This would have moved the property line 600 feet from the road tha...

Vertical to me is elevation, so I guess shooting vertical with a total station could be used, I wonder if there would be problems shooting through a s...

Sort of what I was thinking.Maybe the new paradigm will be to charge a percentage of the map check fees. Sort of like I'll do your survey for 25% of ...

I been using a Zephyr Geodetic with a 4700 for eight years. Works fine.

ScanScanner? Digital won't take up much room.

KentIf a surveyor's investment in tools and software stopped about 1990 it's going to be sort of difficult to get your head around some of the new thi...

KentIf you can get one old team to pull yer wagon there's no sense in ever using anything else (like a car), it just two complicated fer the ordinary ...

You ever read Flatland? Oh, never mind, doubt you could comprehend Spaceland when firmly entrenched in Flatland.Like I said before, two out of three ...

Yeah, but in 3D polar geometry you need the height from the center origin to calculate the distance between two points. I suppose you can fudge with ...

It used to be the King would grant you some land, but when you died or whatever it went back to the King. The King's grant didn't give you the right ...

I suppose 2/3 of a world coordinate is better than nothing. Assuming an elevation takes the risk out of doing a proper job. Is that an insurance com...

So here you have the original landowner/subdivider telling you how he worked with the original surveyor to mark the lots and also how each subsequent ...

Has anybody used one of these?Hounddog LocatorI need to buy a locator also. I'd like some input from a user of this Hounddog.

I suspect we are about the same age. Further lasting is a gift from here on out. I have tools that will long outlast me but many might not be that u...

The drills will out last you.