Not a lot of people realize that land surveying is actually a fusion of art and science. Yes, different equipments are available for the surveyor’s use, but the land surveyor still has the last say on the results. Despite this though, a land surveyor still has several guidelines to follow. If you’ve had an experience [...]
Buying land, whether commercial or residential, is actually a costly endeavor, even when prices have eased somewhat lately. This is the reason locating a parcel which you like and making a deal for it without performing a land survey within the area is likely to be the greatest mistake that you could make. Here’s why [...]
Article by Glen Tanner, Professional Land Surveyor, Copyright 2011, Used by Permission The art of finding property cornersis being lost. The following picture shows what inspired this article. The two rebar, a #4 rebar and a #5 rebar, shown in the photo to the right are 1.9 feet apart and set in 1994 or after [...]
The ALTA Survey Standards are being revised and will become effective February 23, 2011.
I read an article with the above title that reminded me of surveys I've been involved with over the years. In most cases the land owner hired a logging company to clear cut their property and the loggers got over the property line in their zeal to get the "big trees that were out there." [...]
A land surveyor is a professional person with the academic qualifications and technical expertise to measure and plot the lengths and directions of boundary lines and the dimensions of any portion of the earth’s surface (including natural and other structures.) That definition is quite a mouthful, but in actuality the field of surveying (geomatics) includes [...]
Land Surveying dates back to ancient history when the Egyptians surveyed agricultural sites along the Nile River. Surveying is used for multiple project types today. A land survey or boundary survey is done to establish a specific location of a parcel of land along with its exact acreage. It is used to ascertain boundaries for defining an [...]
