@john-putnam We used to do that but then we ended with way more layers than we wanted. It certainly works but was more cumbersome for us.

We map each and every deed, survey, plat, etc.... in our project area. Each document gets it's own drawing with a name coincident with the file name ...

Considerably by a large factor. I would ask your questions in that market. Unfortunately we can't help you here. We charge adequate fees for prof...

We can't even answer the phone for less than $500. Im with @norman-oklahoma 100%. 7500 would be a steal. We shouldn't spend money on technology to...

@bstrand Agree 100% but none of our municipalities (with 1 exception) even understand accuracy standards. If they had them they wouldn't know what th...

I guess we're lucky. We work with 10 + municipalities and none of them even know what accuracy standards or have any reference to them in the contrac...

We use the POC code, see example below. It makes nice curves and if you have your figures constructed in 3d, you can get the elevation along any poin...

I'm not so sure any of these statements protect the surveyor. I would like to know of any actual court case in which these random statements were crit...

They were fairly prevalent around here in the 70s and 80s and we encounter them every now and again. We always shoot the angle point of the angle iro...

We're a trimble only company and dont need much if any support but our dealers have helped when needed..As far as equipment goes the R10 is fine but i...

There should be a seamless communication loop (without childish names) between the field and office with oversight by the PLS or department head. No...

Section 4.B The surveyor MUST be provided the following: Complete copies of the most recent title commitment or, if a title commitment is not availab...

Our work is also on ground. Its starts from Grid then we establish the project scale factor. Upload a .jxl template file into sync manager for each ...

Start a master spreadsheet where each project has it's own tab with all the pertinent information. I implemented this a decade ago and can't live wit...

99% of our work is on a state plane system and we go back and forth with GPS and conventional daily without any calibrations perfectly fine.

We had a similar nightmare a few years ago...which only further reaffirmed my desire to avoid calibrations at all costs. I don't recall the fix but g...

The ALTA standards don't control State mandated requirements. I can conduct a survey to any standards the client requests but there is no such thing ...

Explains why i have been using Civil3d from the beginning and never heard or seen this command. It's not a survey function, its for Autocad Map. Don'...

I am with @robertusa on this one and have been using cad and civil3d longer than i can remember. Back in the day, points where input via cogo only me...

100% agreed. That is the one benefit of the way idaho handles not city/state roads, with Highway Districts. Each Highway district has an attorney an...