I was taught many of the items above back in my early years which was right at the transition to Cad. Nowadays we are the teacher. No one, or at lea...

The bigger question would be why not set the coordinate system? The advantages are clear. When we receive files that we know are on a specific syste...

This, 100%.   Most surveyors i have met are great surveyors but poor businessmen. I was there once until an Engineer, yes Engineer, showed ...

That's what we do on every project and ALWAYS scale to 0,0. With those two things set in stone along with a master spreadsheet to document each proje...

You wont lose any $ on a project you don't get.

I have seen this situation and am frankly more alarmed by the professionals setting boundary monuments without doing any of the boundary work. I am f...

ROW monuments should always be set by the surveyor that determined the right of way and not the construction surveyor that has no knowledge of all as ...

Good point @lurker. Again, we can usually tell how/who set the mons on any particular project. Many in our area were set by contractors and it shows...

Around here its a mixed bag. Each project is different, some you can tell were not set by surveyors. It's all the DOTs fault. Budget with the unders...

I was thinking the same thing, then it dawned on me. Chalk it up to operator error. The Rinex files worked!  

Thanks for the replies. @john-putnam the survey tools is just an OPUS interface, these are 20-30 minute static ties to primary control. Trimble mad...

Great point @bstrand. Under the WA rules, they can't. The entire 'Engineers completing topo work' simply needs to be removed. The rules are confusi...

Its very real, i discussed it in length with the County Surveyor as well. I wasn't the first to bring it up and wont be the last. I didn't want to ma...

@bstrand I use length, delta, radius and when working in a certain municipality that requires chord bearing and distance on every curve, we use that t...

The concavity option was used alot in my former place of employment in WA. I acquiesced, but as soon as i took a leadership role in a different compa...

They were fairly prevalent in parts of WA at a time. I see them turned around often. Its definitely Radius Point to PC In the context of Writin...

If we found the original mons they would hold regardless of perfect/imperfect measurements. Measurements may vary but the mons stay the same. Hold t...

Correct. I have never seen a recorded topo in any of the states or counties I've worked in.

Ok, ya got me! It certainly doesn't double it but definitely adds unnecessary time and cost to our map production with zero benefit. You forgot item...