My workflow has always been to export DXFs from Civil 3D using WBLOCK, so I can strip out any unimportant items (and layers) to reduce file bloat and ...

There is a benefit to have boundary surveys geo referenced. Because standard survey practices seem to drive survey law most states have not yet codifi...

How then would you classify an instance where two parcels, formerly of the same parent parcel, are now in same ownership and the land owner would like...

We can't compute these from lat/lon without ellipsoidal height, the missing element from NAD27. This can be demonstrated empirically with NCAT. Take ...

I'll second the recommendation of the Fundamentals for Surveyors book above. I've not actually run through the course itself, but I have heard goo...

A recombination is simply a resurvey of two parcels with the intent of removing the common line between them. The lines are already established, we're...

What are your deliverables? Raw data? TBC reports? For any PDF I'd simply add a digital stamp & signature that has been worked up in CAD or scann...

I've recently had/have a client who ends every email with: "Will we receive these files today?" Haha, maybe he's just a major league a**hole and t...

I'd be skeptical of creating a custom calibration or transformation unless I had plenty of monuments to go off of. As a general rule if a someone want...

NEVER use the Molodensky 3-parameter transformations. Joel is using Trimble-speak. "Molodensky" where NAD83 job coordinate systems are concerned = ...

Again, using state plane distances to compute acreage produces a meaningless number and you should know that. Working in the shale plays of Texas, ...

Again, it doesn't matter because after you divide the grid distance by the combined factor, the distortion is near zero. I'd say it does matter in ...

It dosen't need grid to do that and that's pretty slick. But in cases where there is a grid, say state plane, what does it do? Same routine, actual...

If the grid is state plane, then to get to ground distance, your equipment has to calculate two scale factors, two elevation factors and average corre...

@dmyhill I'd argue that the conceptual knowledge is absolutely accessible to any user of these systems nowadays. There are dozens of references and ...

Dunno about "best" but we are extremely happy with these folks:

Here in NYC we typically show lot areas to the nearest 0.1 of a square foot, if we were to round to the nearest square foot we'd be getting calls from...

There was/is a BLM program that easily dealt with cadastral true north calculations, Geodetic COGO or GOGO, I think. Used it in school, I was luck...

I got downvoted for saying the same thing, when OP posted the same thing in another thread, and then everyone else tripped all over themselves to give...

The DOT survey was a metric era survey and it was interesting. The control shown is metric in state plane, distances for the drawing were shown as met...