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A surveyor in Flagstaff mentioned they always sketch a site by hand before any CAD work.
He said it forces you to really see the land and spot issues you'd miss just clicking points on a screen. I tried it on a small lot survey last week and caught a drainage slope I would have totally overlooked. Do you guys ever start with paper, or is that just an old-school thing now?
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the_joel1mo ago
Wait, they found property corners that were wrong from the deed? That's wild. How does that even happen?
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Oh man, that's so true. I still do a rough field sketch on every job, even if it's just a quick one on graph paper. It makes you slow down and actually look at the whole picture, not just the points you're shooting. I've found property corners that were way off from the deed description because the sketch showed the shape was all wrong. If I'd just plugged numbers into the computer, I would have forced it to fit. It's not old-school, it's just smart work.
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