Yes, a good county surveyor is wonderful. If you get a bureaucratic county surveyor...maybe not so wonderful to work in that county...
That's a fair point, but the person in question had only ever worked in the one county. And to top it off, he had a cousin that worked at the County P...
Yeah, I keep encouraging my crews to take the LSIT and work towards their license. For a lot of these young guys, they got into surveying because they...
Every country in the world uses the International System (or SI) for weights and measures for all official transactions except for three. One is the U...
When I went to Fresno State, the first survey class we learned how to chain (using a steel tape) but it wasn't on a reel. I learned how to throw it (d...
I know a few licensed individuals right here in my home town that definitely didn't meet the qualifications to sit for the exam. But they have a licen...
I am recording a parcel map (today or tomorrow I hope) that has an access easement to one house up on a hill. It is a beautiful location overlooking O...
I'm running in to an issue with this as well.I work for a company in Central California. Prior to be coming on board here, the company had contracted ...
I've never done 3-wire leveling in practice, but when I was back in college (over 20 years ago) we did several exercises with the yard rod.The thing I...
This is great. I was recently involved in a minor argument with another surveyor over a section corner. And what we finally used to settle the disagre...
Sounds like an issue I had a few years ago dealing with County Planning over a Lot Line Adjustment application.Me: Here's my application to adjust the...
Without a bigger picture I wouldn't really be able to speculate too much.But the first thing that came to mind when I read this is that perhaps it is ...
Well, semantics aside, I'm not going to tell a potential client that I can't locate their property line because there's no such thing. I'm going to un...
Well, in California, as as surveyor I can't actually tell someone where their property line is. I can tell them where the evidence indicates it is. Bu...
Most communities around here require a note like that on their final maps. However, it goes so far as to say that the purchaser of any of these lots i...
Yep. My application for a lot line adjustment to merge 4 parcels for a commercial site required an exhibit showing all existing and proposed lot lines...
I've seen things like this before and it is so frustrating. Usually it is because a client has asked me to "figure out" his property and I run in to a...