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In 2015, I performed an ALTA survey on +/-150 Acres of land. Recently, I dicovered an error which requires a 6' shift on a portion of the boundary.
What is the proper procedure to correct this?
A site planning survey is a type of land surveying required by local governing jurisdictions for building permit applications. It is used to plan developments and propose improvements of a site before construction starts. More specifically, a site pl
When a land surveyor locates and establishes points between two survey stations, that act is called ranging. There are two conventional methods of ranging: the direct method and the indirect method.
Direct Ranging Method
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Tools Used in Surveying
Instruments used in surveying include:
- Alidade
- Alidade table
- Cosmolabe
- Dioptra
- Dumpy level
- Engineer's chain
- Graphometer
- Groma (surveying)
- Laser scanning
- Level staff
- Measuring tape
- Plane table
- Pole (surveying)
- Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector)
- Prismatic compass (angle measurement)
- Ramsden surveying instruments
- Ranging rod
- Surveyor's chain
- Tachymeter (surveying)
- Tape (surveying)
- Theodolite
- Half theodolite
- Plain theodolite
- Simple theodolite
- Great theodolite
- Non-transit theodolite
- Transit theodolite
- Seconds theodolite
- Electronic theodolite
- Mining theodolite
- Suspension theodolite
- Traveling theodolite
- Pibal theodolite
- Registering theodolite
- Gyro-theodolite
- Construction theodolite
- Photo-theodolite
- Robotic theodolite
- Vernier theodolite
- Total station
- Transit (surveying)
- Tripod (surveying)
- Universal instrument (surveying)
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