Luckily in my 2 states the County Surveyor does not review surveys but they do review subdivisions.

i was working in the office in Bellevue, WA. Remember it like it was yesterday. The internet related access was still new to most so they were all hu...

  Without adherence to the standards you have no standards. No one is allowed to create new layers, we have standards setup to cover all bases...

We do the same as @wendell and used them as the basis and general format for our standards. Our survey products are always used internally (and somet...

  Define soon? They told us that very thing 5 years ago.  

98 is way over the top! We've completed plenty of multi mile waterlines with only 2-3 primary control points. We only stake our own projects so its ...

In at least 3 counties i work in the County Assessor maps each and every deed that is recorded and if it a new metes and bounds deed that doesn't meet...

Many, unfortunately, don't know any better. Its just what the salesman showed them and off they go. I was there once. Since he is a colleague it w...

We always capitalize and bold TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING and POINT OF BEGINNING. That's just the way i was taught. Is there a right or wrong way? I've ...

Yes, we used it to create all sorts of custom control and staking reports as well and also use it to create macros in TBC for a variety of uses. It's...

We're not making lisp routines, we're having chatgpt and claude create full on programs nested within Civil3d. Its quite amazing how easy it is once ...

Creating a plat and drawing a plat map are 2 drastically different products and workflows in my Cities and States. Creating a plat is a boundary surv...

There are 2-4 townships south of an area i work in that have 6500-7000 n/s south sections 1 through 6.

On the rare occasion when we can't stake our own projects. The spec i create basically says, contractor is responsible for all construction staking. ...

That's what we did, was super easy to create and customize to fit our needs.  

Unfortunately construction staking is not a professional service so the the agency/GC treats you as a providing a service for a fee. Fee, being the ...

0. Will never work for a GC again. We have many times in the past. Its simply not worth the headache of trying to do the work in combination with tr...

I am curious how one would combine a portion of his neighbors property with his own without legal descriptions. Legal Descriptions are a weekly occur...

While I have not personally done this, a survey crew i was directing in the mid 90s did. They broke down, or at least spent 1 day breaking down the se...

Good the Sydow's prevailed. The opposition is well known in this area to be a development bully and does what he wants!