What Bill said. The direction of a section line is determined by monuments. In many counties there are records of them, usually but not always kept...

Calling the above-mentioned form a Title Insurance Report is misleading. It's a surveyor's report made for the use of the title insuror and/or other p...

Official City map vs iron pins Posted by CuriousOne on May 17, 2024 at 4:25 pm <div>You say this might get escalated to a lawsuit. I...

Welcome back! And best wishes to Mrs. Cow.

I went to college for two years, but only took one surveying course. Learned all the rest on the job over about 10 years' time. Licensed in Minnesota ...

Very good to hear from you. Whatever the docs say the prognosis is, I believe you'll do better than that.

I looked at Chippewa County's online GIS (geographic information system). This parcel is shown, but the GIS lines don't entirely agree with the legal ...

I don't see any Like button, but that's a great story.

Good to see you back. I hope all is well. No snow yet in Minneapolis.

Great old tools. I remember a time when I used some of them and could have used all of them. Particularly like the Babbitt-casting equipment.

I saw one a few weeks ago that read MOE ABTO It would have been hard to decipher, except I noticed that the vehicle was parked next to a Ukrainian Ort...

When I was a technician back in the '60s, I worked for a County highway department and learned a good deal from a surveying manual issued by the State...

Medupi, hello again if you are still monitoring this thread. Here is a link to a sort of U.S. visa lottery this fall, which it appears you are eligibl...

This is a late post but might be of interest to someone. In 30-odd years of working in the Twin Cities, I saw a great many blocks of this sort, and su...

Don't know anything about Geodimeter, but I've done some battery re-cells on an older Topcon. It seemed to have a routine for sensing over-voltage. At...