Wisconsin Supreme Court settles long-standing boundary dispute along Henn Road
For nearly 100 years, landowners recognized a particular road as the boundary line between the properties. A 2005 survey uncovered a monument that suggested otherwise. But
Several years ago, Bayfield County decided a snowmobile and ATV trail from Cable to Bayfield would be a great boon to the local economy. To boot, officials found
A-E 7 "Minimum Standards for Property Surveys"Ā is only the beginning of many other potential discussions regarding the role of the Land Surveyor in matters of professional conduct in the State of Wisconsin. Ā These are the "Tenets" that we live by as
Before A-E 7 "Minimum Standards for Property Surveys", the State of Wisconsin adopted minimum standards in the Wisconsin Administrative Code under Chapter A-E 5. Ā The following is a history of all versions of A-E 5 from its creation in 1974 until its
LightSquared, FCC Rebuttals Distort RecordĀ A claim frequently made by LightSquared spokesperson Jeff Carlisle, and recently by FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, that the GPS industry knew long ago about LightSquared's plan for powerful terrestrial tr
WASHINGTON ā Disruption of GPS positioning and navigation signals used for aviation and other applications within U.S. territory will be unavoidable if startup firm LightSquared is permitted to deploy a hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadband network
DSWORLD. Does every Land Surveyor in the United States use DSWORLD? Ā This is the only way to import NGS benchmarks into Google Earth by either State and County, or a variety of other ways. Ā It uses KML to plot the benchmarks on the surface of the Ear
LightSquared GPSĀ is a problem! Ā We need more discussion on this topic because it affects every Land Surveyor on Earth. Ā We could even have a group solely dedicated to this topic, but for now the GPS group will have to speak LOUD about the emerging th
GIS - Greatest Infrastructure Schema or Get It Surveyed? Ā It should be no secret by now that GIS is Ā beneficial to the Land Surveyor and that Land Surveying is beneficial to GIS. Ā In this apparent symbiosis of professions that generates confusion amo
NFIP and the Land SurveyorĀ is a discussion that may help explain the role of the land surveyor in serving clients with property that has been inadvertently included in the SFHA, or Special Flood Hazard Area.
Thomas M. Cooley, Regarding the United States Public Land Survey:
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No statute can confer upon a county surveyor (nor any other surveyor) the power to āestablishā corners, and thereby bind the parties concerned. Nor is this a question merely of conflic
How has the land ordinance of 1785 shaped the formation of new States?
Thomas Jefferson was acutely aware of the potential colonization West of the settlements on the Eastern Coast of āNew Englandā.Ā A growing population in these original colonies, be