@dave-karoly I am happy to be a colonial surveyor. you all out west make it too complicated. Give me calls for abutters over sections any day of the w...
We use a Seafloor hydrone to do surveys for tidal docking structures. We have got pretty good results, though the saltwater degraded the sealant and w...
New Hampshire here, but I had a recent situation where an angry abutter was attempting to state that the ordinance required a special exception for a ...
Welcome from another live free or die resident. I'm on the seacoast, where you at?
We use a total station for every job. There is far too much detail to be located by GNSS and I would never layout a structure with RTK. RTK is used to...
I worked on something similar but it was for a coastal gun istallation from WWI. They knew it was moving, but didn't know where, by how much, or if re...
@not-my-real-name Gets a bit complicated out this way (Northeast). DOTs say the centerline the ROW is referenced to (construction, design, whatever) ...
@paul-in-pa Sheffield, England is/was a major metal manufacturing city.
You can also create the surface on your current datum, then use the Triangulation File Utilities to add or subtract the difference to your surface and...
Got lucky on the seacoast in NH, only a foot or so. A town further up in the mountains got 44" yesterday. No thanks.?ÿ
We have a job number for the physical address. We have done multiple jobs on the same property for different clients many times. We just add a modifie...
@hollandbriscoe Same here, all plans & deeds back to 1629 in my county. The original book 1 was destroyed by the Selectmen in or about 1645 when...
Around here it's more like "We're booked up 8 weeks out". Then they call back the next day because all the other surveyors told them 4-6 months....
I use +/- values all the time. When the boundary is a water boundary, such as mean high water, mean low water, etc., the area of the property and ties...
I wrote an opinion piece for our associations newsletter regarding this, as well as the respect that "technicians" deserve and is sorely lacking in th...
