So there is a new development being built right next to my parents property line. One of the property points originally went 285 feet in length and the new survey that was performed is now stating that the new length is actually 263 feet.

This is obviously a big difference. We spoke with the new land surveyor who is very good friends with the land developer and he stated that the original survey performed was wrong. How is this possible with such a big difference? Should they not have informed my parents when that was found?

My parents have been living at this property for nearly 20 years, have been paying taxes built on this property line, etc.

What are our options and what can we do to confirm our property lines? All the land plays for my parents land going back to 1996 shows 285. Now this new developer comes in during 2022 and we're out 21feet of land?

I am changing roles and taking on more of a an operations role. I am looking for advice on software that helps with crew and field scheduling as well as tracking project milestones to assist the project managers. I would like this to be viewable by all PM’s so everyone stays on task. We are a 20 employee firm and are currently using excel for this. Thank you for any assistance.

I work at a land surveying/engineering company with an increase of work lately and we have considered outsourcing some of the drafting. However from reading previous posts on the experiences that people have had with outsourcing, we have become hesitant on proceeding with this. But we still consider it a good idea to outsource a portion of the drafting, specially those repetitive time-consuming tasks like deed research/plot, PDF to cad and others. We are not looking to outsource drafters for final documentation preparation. Has anybody had experience outsourcing a portion of the drafting? Is it worth it to look into this?

Survey in Oklahoma. Boss man said they were set around statehood and that’s the oldest piece of history I’ve witnessed so I figured I should share. Pen is hollow filled with concrete so some of them are fragile enough they just break in half.

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I am doing a land severance on my side yard. The previous owner built the house in 2001 and left us the old land survey from 2001. Now I want to put a fence where my neighbour is but he is saying the property line is a few feet different than what the old owner told us. What happens in these situations? I am happy to pay for a new survey but how do surveyors know where exactly is the property line? And can it vary from the 2001 survey? This is in a big city and its an urban lot. Just worried that if the neighbour is there when the surveyor arrives that the surveyor will want to avoid conflict and find a middle ground between the lots. Is that a reasonable concern? Thank you

Hey, is anyone in the survey community able to help.

I was given a Trimble SPS852 reciever (v4.71 firmware, 2012 warrenty) with a GA810 antenna and Getac PS236 PDA running Windows. It's an old settup, but given I was gifted it for free, I was hoping to find a use for it. I do a lot of photogrammrtry using a dji mini 4 pro drone. I currently rely on contractors to give me the accurate coordinates of the ground control points. However, it would be great if I could use the trimble reciever to get those coordinates with around 0.3m accuracy.

My question is, is it possible to settup the reciver as a rover with corrections from the Auscors network? See attached reciver options.

My next question is, what sre the configuration settings to access Auscors, and how do I connect the reviever for access to an internet connection over Bluetooth or serial with the Getac.

I'm hoping to do this without any subscriptions or paying for updated warranty with trimble to update the firmware.

Thank you.

My husband and I have a property in New England, 4 acre corner lot on town roads. We have not been able to locate the pins marking the boundaries to the rear of the property. We were quoted $5,000 for a survey. Is this typical?

I have contacted a few other companies, but honestly shocked by the price as this was substantially higher than what I paid 10 years ago when I had my first property surveyed.

Thank you!

Haven’t a clue how to read this but my wife says we can’t build a house below the traverse line? Is that true? Also have zero idea what the arrows mean. Any help is very much appreciated.

I have spoken to a few surveyors in my area to receive survey quotes and timelines in order to put in a fence. Each company has quoted me for a physical boundary survey in the range of $800 - $1000 and a wait time of 6 - 12 weeks.

The last company I spoke to told me that I do not need a "physical" or "boundary survey" - and told me to instead ask for a fence survey. He quoted me $500 with a two-week timeline. He explained that with it not being a physical survey, I would receive a CAD map that would satisfy fencing company and HOA requirements. That sounds to me like the fencing company would use the drawing as a reference for fence placement, and it makes me wonder what would happen if the fencers measured wrong.

I have yet to hear of a not-physical fence survey in my research - is this something I should go with, or should I stick with a physical boundary survey?

I'll start by saying I know absolutely nothing about surveying, before coming here I have tried to research and figure out my own math conversions but am coming up no where close to the decimal coordinates if i drop a pin in the ballpark area on google maps. I am wanting to find the decimal location of a pin or two based off of the dms bearings on my survey so that I can hopefully be closer to physically finding the pins. Any help or advice is appreciated

I seem to remember in my history classes that land surveying seemed to have been a popular hobby (or perhaps more of a side profession??) For several of the US Founding Fathers and various explorers of the west.

Is there an Amateur/hobby surveying community these days? I used to love find old monuments on public lands growing up. Especially National Boarder monuments in places like the Boundary Waters Wilderness.

If there is such a community what would be a good way to get into it? Do people just go find old monuments like an advanced Easter Egg hunt? Is there more to the amateur side?

Does anyone know if there is a device or app I could use to measure the elevation of a lot that I bought? I know I can go to the county maps to get the elevation of the lot but I am actually want to measure it. The lot has been raised from its original elevation but the elevation survey says it is lower than the fema maps.

It’s a long story so I won’t go into it but I feel like my surveyor didn’t get it right. I’m just wanting to know if I can somewhat check it myself before I order another elevation survey?

Thanks to anyone who may have ideas? I appreciate it.

Jay

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Hi All, live in a neighborhood on a hill and the property lines are very blurred. My uphill neighbor has a retaining wall that wraps around their entire front yard and around, but sits on my driveway and on my side of the property line (I have had it surveyed). The other main issue is there are two drains that drain directly onto my driveway causing erosion and damage to my driveway. How do I address this? Since a portion of it was built on my side of the property? First photo shows the wall and how it wraps around the front of their house - second photo shows the property line stake from my land survey. To clarify, there is no ongoing dispute with my neighbor - I am just curious why their wall is on my property and IF something were to happen, who is responsible.

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Property Line Stake

Retaining wall in question, wrapped around the front of neighbors yard and sits on my driveway

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Once upon a time, I developed land surveying / geomatics app.

It required registration but you could use it for free. No ads, no hidden payment.

But as time passed by, I figured out that it was not a fire-and-forget project. As operating systems updated, I had to keep updating the app. Also I had to fix bugs, add requested features... I tried to monetize it by offering one-time payed offline version. But almost everyone kept using the online one. So as things started to break more and more, and I had no time and resources to invest, I decided to kill it.

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Every now and then I get a message from previous users asking if I will create a new version.

That makes me feel bad, since I have invested so much time to program everything and now it is not being used.

On the other hand, if I start to repeat all I did before, I would most likely end-up in the same situation.

So if I am going to start this I need to figure out how to make it sustainable.

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These are the features that app had:

The "Standard" part

• Import measurements from total stations (Trimble JXL, Leica GSI / MDT and Topcon GTS7 files)
• Option for manual input of measurements
• Tools for advanced measurement editing
• Booking Sheets Calculation (a lot of them)
• Direct Geodetic Problem
• Inverse Geodetic Problem
• Coordinates by Angular Intersection
• Coordinates by Angular Resection
• Coordinates by Intersection of Two Circles
• Coordinates by Intersection of Two Lines
• Link Traverse
• Open Traverse
• Polygonal Traverse
• Area of a Polygon
• Azimuth to Unknown Point
• Geocentric to Geodetic coordinates conversion
• Geodetic to Geocentric coordinates conversion
• Coordinate Transformation
• Convert DXF to Shapefile
• Convert Shapefile to DXF
• Copy GeoTiff by Extent
• Map viewer with feature attributes and printing option (X)
• Raster Georeferencing Report
• Trimble - GPS Calibration Report
• Unit Converter
• WMS Downloader

The "Least squares" part

• Least squares network adjustment of horizontal and vertical network
• Deformation analysis of horizontal and vertical network

The "Terrain" part

• Terrain profiles (X)
• Surface Interpolation with Curvilinear Anisotropy
• Bathymetry Mesh from Cross Sections
• Cross Section Chainage

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The idea is to make desktop and mobile apps (Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone) that would have all listed features except the graphical ones (marked with X).

I am interested how many of you would use it, and any ideas how to fund the project.

Maybe having some parts of the app 100% free, but requiring subscription for some parts? If so how much would you be willing to pay on monthly basis ($1, $5...)?

I would like to avoid adding ads because I can't stand ads...

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Hello all. Looking for some advice. I am thinking about going into surveying. I have a year of university under my belt, but dropped out because I felt like I didn’t really know what or why I was doing it. I have been working as a dispatcher at a Concrete Company for a few months now and make good money for my age (20). I live with my parents and am able to save a lot of money. I am looking at trying to do an online course (University of Maine Surveying Engineering B.S. degree) while working part time (~30 hrs/week) Should I go to school first and then transition? Any other course/school suggestions? I plan to shadow a surveyor before enrolling to make sure I don’t hate it. Any advice would be very appreciated.

I passed the FS and PS but the state of Colorado is requiring me to have at least 24 hours of survey course work before I can sit for the PLS. I have a BS in Watershed Science from CSU and 9 years of surveying experience.

I want to complete these credit as quickly as possible. Does anyone know of a University that offers summer coursework online? I have viewed the wiki with the lists of ABET accredited colleges but it’s hard to navigate each website to see if they have summer coursework. I plan to take classes at Colorado Mesa College in the fall but I want to get the ball rolling sooner.

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Hi! Has anyone taken the NLC PS prep online course? I’m going to take the exam and I would like to know with how much time in advance you should take the prep course