What are our teaching obligations to the next generation of surveyors? Once, the education of future surveyors was an important function of surveying…
Category: Point to Point
11.06.2004
Is Responsible Charge Obsolete?
Some have wondered recently whether the historical doctrine of individual responsible charge is outdated in this electronic age. Is it not time to…
11.06.2004
The Uproar Over Encroaching Grass
Robert Frost once wrote, "Good fences make good neighbors." The most benign of nuisances can escalate into major confrontations, where mistrust and suspicion…
11.06.2004
Abandoning Evidentiary Retracement
What persuades surveyors to believe that boundary retracement must eventually be driven from evidence to mathematics? Some introspective surveyors believe that within a…
11.06.2004
Monitoring the Standard of Care
As bizarre as it may seem, we are not expected to be perfect. Avoiding negligence simply requires "reasonable and prudent" conduct. The courts…
11.06.2004
The Folly of Finality
"That the earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor right over it. The portion occupied by…
11.06.2004
On Controlling Grants
It has been convenient for some surveyors to claim that their only obligation in boundary retracement was to retrace the deed calls on…
11.06.2004
Understanding Principles and Issues
Not long ago I attended a committee meeting with some surveyors to discuss a common response to an issue that had arisen. During…
11.06.2004
Of Cathedrals And Surveys
It sometimes seems as if surveyors, as a group, have the world’s largest inferiority complex. For people as opinionated as we are, this…
11.06.2004
The Case Against Positional Tolerance
Positional tolerance is becoming the darling of surveyors searching for an acceptable alternative to traverse "precision" tables for boundary surveys. While not new,…
