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Often a Title Insurance firm will make an offer to the concerned parties to hire a Land Surveyor to produce a Land Survey for their real estate transaction.

 

The agreements between the Title Insurance firm and the Land Surveyor often are made with the understanding that the Land Surveyor will continue to get work orders from the Title Insurance firm if they will not be paid for the Land Survey if the 1198849439?profile=originaltransaction does not close, the Land Surveyor will produce the Land Survey at an artificially low

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Chain!

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Chain!

 

The theory behind surveying practice has never been the notion of the surveyor. It is rooted in a far older idea shaped by the sovereign that all land was held under. Physically and literally defending the land is where rights to land emanated from.

We have gradually tried to tame physical force with law to give a veneer of civility to our society, however the absoluteness of physical possession remain as a basis for the ultimate claim to land. This principle is reflected in modern real pr

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Backsite 2010 and Traverse 2011

 

This is a recap on the message that I sent to everyone earlier today.  Because of harsh weather in many parts of the country and many surveyors switching companies or losing their previous email accounts altogether, I figured I should post this here for you to see.

First, I wish you all a happy new year and chose to purposely wait a few days into the year to send you this wish, as it is genuine.  Last year was the toughest that many can remember ever living through in their lives, including my

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On Being a News Maker

Surveying is not dead and you are the proof.

1198849519?profile=originalI happen to believe that surveyors need to know what is going on in the minds of other surveyors.  For far too long, the media and publications surrounding surveying (although not all intentionally) have done a great disservice to the everyday surveyor by placing everyone at opposite ends of the field. One day I just decided that this could not continue. I became hellbent on the idea that if we restructured the agenda of support and open the channels

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When We Are All Dead

When We Are All Dead...will Surveying be with us?

1198849426?profile=originalWhen we are all long gone from this earthly plain, there will still be droves of ambitious new surveyors entering the industry, many without even the slightest clue about the origin of ideas, reasoning behind practice or history of method. Those surveyors will most likely find themselves Googling their questions and concerns only to find your brilliant solution on our network, having been answered years before by some dead guy who really knew wha

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I Am Going To Tell You How to Future-Proof Your Surveying Business
If you have, you are among the whopping 3% of business owners in the world who has claimed their business on the Google maps and in Google Local Search. Just run a quick search for Land Surveyors in your local area and see where you fall in the search results. If you haven't yet claimed your business you will be missing out on a LOT of business over the next 24 months. I want to help you out with making this claim if you haven't y

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How to Convert PDFs to Read On Your Data Collector

Convert manuals for reading in the field, surveyorsA few months back, I discovered something that could be extremely useful to the common land surveyor on the street (or in the woods)- another "Cool New Thing," if you will. What if I told you that there is a way for you to read PDF (Portable Document Format) documents on your data collector without having to load resource hogging software such as Adobe Reader and without having to visit your email to download attachments? Well, that is exactly what i figured! Using free software called eBooktoIm
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Land Surveyors United Twitter Journal

Within the following pages you will find an archive of all tweets and shared items which have come out of the Land Surveyors United network over the past 8 months. You can find solutions to problems, meet other surveyors and research solutions to common problems in the field.

Follow Land Surveyors United on Twitter @landsurveyorsU

Introducing the Land Surveyors United Twoural:

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featured surveyors
Below I have attached a digest of the latest surveying related articles, discussions, groups and photos on Land Surveyors United, for your downloading pleasure and for viewing offline.

Latest in Featured Surveying Articles

Latest in Featured Surveying Discussions on LSU

Latest in Featured Surveying Groups on LSU

Latest in Featured Surveying Photos on LSU
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Surveyors Job Board Comes to Land Surveyors United

Surveyors Job Board
There are more land surveyors out of work today than ever before-this is not news to any of you. But how are we dealing with it? Well,you asked for it and I created it...Introducing the official Land Surveyors United Job Board!

Here, surveying companies can post available jobs for land surveyors, party chiefs, rodmen, instrument men...any job which is surveying related for an ultra low $7 for 30 days! This is much lower than craigslist or any other classifieds website offering land surveying j
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How To Create Effective Surveying How To Tutorials

 

Those new to the surveying industry most always need a little know-how and in efforts to support this need, LSU provides the absolute best and simple platform for publishing such How-To discussions and articles. So today let's talk about what an effective How-To tutorial contains. A 'How-To' tutorial is by far one of the most common post types used by almost every blogger, writer or expert online. Why? Because people search for answers when they don't have them already. Inherently, 'How-To' po

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How Blogging is Like Land Surveying

I originally wrote this post on my father's blog back in June of 2008- now look and see how far we have come since then.

An update:
Through close to three years of experience creating LSU, I have come to understand how much blogging may not seem very useful to the common land surveyor. For that very reason, all blogs on LSU are referred to as "articles."Nevertheless, by now all of us have at least heard about what a blog is. Today I am going to explain to you how blogging is a lot like land sur
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If Your Calculator Sucks, Try These

 

As surveyors, we all know when its time to get a new calculator...right about the time it starts to suck! I found these great calculator alternatives for use online (via). Try them out!


The Architect Calculator

 

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For DIY, designers, contractors, estimators, and architects. Calculate lengths, areas, volumes, and hypotenuses, in Feet & Inches. Keyboard input with SmartDot: to enter 1'6 5/8", just type 1..6.5/8. The dot cycles through [dot] [ft mrk] [space] [inch mrk]. With very little practic

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allegrocx.jpgThe upgrade for the older surveyors that used or still use the SDR33, the AllegroCX with SDR+, at 50% off
If you have ever ran the SDR33 data collector, and used the SDR Expert software then you can upgrade your system to have bluetooth, the ability to use one of the BEST data collectors available by Juniper Systems. The Allegro CX has all the upgrades as far as processingspeed, a full color touch screen monitor, wireless connection bluetooth, full
keypad, and known for it's rugged nature.PLUS wi
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Field Assets Iphone App for Land Surveyors

Field Assets V2.0
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  • $16.99
  • Category: Utilities
  • Updated:Mar 23, 2010
  • Current Version:2.0
  • 2.0
  • 2.0 MB
  • Language:English
  • Seller:LBS Wireless Pty Ltd
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Description

Field Assets is the ultimate field data collection application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The application enables the user to record the location of assets and to enter information on attributes of assets in the field. The user also has the option of taking geo referenced photos and recording voice memos

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