I remember being in the wrong block in St. Paul about 1982, not long after I got my license. Details are a little fuzzy now. The lot dimensions were t...

Wendell and Angel, many thanks for all that you have done. I support the paid membership model. Money buys time, and always has--the time to get this ...

I'd also be interested in hearing if this problem was solved. I don't have Mountaintop, but I had a similar issue some years ago with another Unix sur...

I once worked under a party chief with what might be called a rigid cast of mind. This was about 1974, and I was running a transit. He ordered me to s...

You said you have already found two monuments. You might consider sighting between them to see how the bearing compares with what your survey drawing ...

Looking at the bottom of that tribrach, the round steel plate with the triangular bracket doesn't look like standard equipment. Perhaps it's some sort...

Magnetic declination changes over time, and it's also different from one place to another. Using magnetic bearings to find monuments is not likely to ...

Could be the input shaft of a manual transmission. The input shaft has a splined body which goes through a collar on the clutch disk. The collar has...

Here's one from MN, if all you want is an example.  

@frankgHere's a plot, of sorts. From what you've said, it doesn't seem as though the two GPS points, PLCBK1 and PLCBK2, were actually included in the ...

@frankg, this is the .csv file displayed in Excel, with a header added-- You mentioned that PLCBK1 and PLCBK2 are the two points set with GPS. The...

I have used "on a bearing of East." Taken in context with other bearings using DD.MMSS, this would likely be taken to mean East on the same basis of b...

Just to clarify. were you using a total station instrument? And if so, what exactly did you do at each point where you set it up? What other points di...

I could calc it if you recorded your distances, angles, etc. with pencil and paper. If so, please post them. If you recorded them electronically with ...

Here is a very concise book on description writing, published by the state society in Minnesota-- It's a re-write of a book by Fant, Freeman, and...

Here's another one by Paden, also very good--  

@john-putnam A standard note of that sort sounds like a good idea. I remember getting requests for M & B descriptions of platted parcels or aliq...

Greetings from Minneapolis, USA, not as sunny and a good deal colder. There is a lot of excellent institutional memory on this site. I'm sure you will...

This description was perhaps written by a non-surveyor who was looking at a survey drawing. That might explain the substitution of "cause" for "course...