I spent three days in the field the last two weeks. If I could do it I'd make it ten in two weeks. The old adage of everyday in the field is better t...

The only time I know it's a requirement is for subdivision boundaries. I recently finished 8 BLA's and Family Exemption Plats. They all had multiple d...

You have old monuments presumably surveyed in NAD83(HARN). The issue with that is what HARN? HARN 83(86), 83(93), 83(2007). HARN simply means High Ac...

I'm not sure what you mean.

We've gone back and forth over this for years. I don't care about it at all, on the other hand I make the labels go the direction of the legal. But it...

The first coded F2F system I used what was called HASP, not the HASP that you think of today. It used numerical codes (circ. 1985). 100 was breakline ...

To calculate it correctly you need to have the rotation between your local system and UTM. Here is pt 40 and the rotation to geodetic north (astronom...

For point numbers we use DOT convention, since it flows well with our work. 1-200 is control, 200-400 are calculated points (they get deleted constant...

I don't do that anymore, but when I did only the circumstances mattered. Basically, what is the best most efficient way to run the traverse, clockwise...

Do not use 0,0 for any local point. That will send you into all four quadrants with positive and negative coordinates. There are a number of ways to ...

It's something to behold. I had one project where an engineering company hired me to do some property lines. I gave the lines to them in SP as they r...

It appears that 11344 was a claim of 80 acres and was split into two claims, and possibly the division line isn't staked. There are two basis of beari...

This is advanced level land surveying, it really would be best to get a local surveyor experienced in these tracts if one is available. Often there w...