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Responding to an article published in POB, the organization clarifies its position on the role of surveying in public protection and the activities included in surveying licensure.
Responding to an article published in POB, the organization clarifies its position on the role of surveying in public protection and the activities included in surveying licensure.
The ‘Takings Clause’ of the U.S. Constitution might seem–at first glance–to be an arcane issue beyond the scope of the land surveyor. However, situations that result in uncompensated takings often crop up at the local level.
As clearcut as the boundaries staked out by surveyors are, the lines of authority over the information in those signed and sealed surveys are blurring.
Finding where a property boundary line has become established on the ground requires gathering the best available evidence that the reasonably prudent surveyor would find, evaluating that evidence, and then rendering a well-reasoned opinion on the factual question of location.
In Solo Notes in the March issue of POB, Lee Spurgeon mentioned one of his unforgettable stories from his surveying career. Here is his somewhat fictionalized recounting of the incident, fluffed up a little for entertainment value.
Back in October of last year, we discussed the disturbing case of Vizaline, a company founded in 2014 that uses public information, draws the deed lines with a software program that plots the bearings and distances, then Vizaline places that plot on an aerial image and produces a "Viza-Plat."
As clearcut as the boundaries staked out by surveyors are, the lines of authority over the information in those signed and sealed surveys are blurring.
Jeff Lucas, who writes the Traversing the Law column for POB, shared some information on a potential class action where surveys dutifully filed with a state authority were then provided to a technology company, apparently in their entirety.
