I realize you are looking for more high-end procedures, but based upon my long experience with stupid survey crew tricks: Running the gun in the summe...

I read an interesting analysis decades ago on the thousandth digits and the brain's bias. With enough shots the thousandths should appear with equal f...

I had a marketing class as part of my accounting major. I enjoyed it and learned a lot about interesting business strategies (like if you sell a high ...

I know of a surveyor who set wood stakes at corners, reasoning that since he was not setting a real monument he didn't have to file a record of survey...

Thank you Chris. Well said.

Ever the contrarian, and thinking long term, I have provided the AutoCAD file without charge but with the caution that it is now XX years out of date....

What WA-ID said. If vacant I'd visit the site and walk the boundary just in case the adjoiners have been active, so say 50% and a little more. If occu...

Long ago I noticed that my body could block the radio connection if I stood in the way, so I had a metal clip made that fit on top of the rover rod, j...

Speaking just for me, when I started surveying I read every survey book, literally word for word. The other guys would go in for coffee and there I wa...

Me surveying the future Alligator Alley, 5 May 1965. We used an airboat to get around.

I use a wood stake as a base and a craft stick to mix the two (white and black) components, and disposable gloves. Clean up is easy (wipe the stick an...

He was an exceptionally decent and helpful man. I enjoyed chatting with him about surveys.

I find my epoxied disks in place after 25 years, and Tucson gets a lot of sun.

We used to see new tellers every week at our local Wells Fargo, so we assumed this was a training facility. Nope, they were all fired for not meeting ...

I've said repeatedly that if you are working efficiently you will know what you just did and have no need to polka dot the world. I somehow manage to ...