It's a shame if drafting basics aren't taught anymore. They apply to CAD as much as they do to hand drafting.

@sergeant-schultz I still use mine daily.

@olemanriver A surveyor I knew a few years ago simply despised GPS. He said the "Surveyors would eventually only visit the corners and not walk the...

Never approach another professional surveyor with arrogance when you discover an error. My approach is to say I have discovered some differences betwe...

I'm seeing more and more plats stating that the survey was performed with GPS. I'm in Northeast Georgia where canopy is the rule. We typically use a C...

We've been running a Brx7 since right after they were introduced. Mostly as a network rover. I've had mostly good results under canopy. To me, the mos...

He must have found a loop hole no one else noticed

The first time I came across the "no data available" was on an adjoining property to our subject. The record plat of the subject didn't show adjoining...

@andy-bruner I don't remember when but I vaguely remember reading that it passed. I thought what are the odds I'll ever run across that situation. B...

Isn't sag a factor?

We had a county surveyor years ago that, when asked, would advise a property owner to offset their fence from the property line six inches if in town ...

One of the weirdest I've seen in a deed was (Paraphrasing) "Beginning at J.S.'s mailbox, thence South 70 average steps to the common man, Thence West ...

We were in the backwoods a long ways from anything and came across a patch of ground that had been tilled and raked with little green plants in neat r...

@james-vianna We later found out that the owner's late husband was a fireman. That explained the hydrant and creatively used fire hoses around ...