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I hear this question a lot from landowners who have GPS technology at their disposal. Either a handheld “navigational” GPS or even an iPhone app that shows GPS coordin ates. The question is fair enough but the answer is most usually, PLEASE DON’T! A surveyor can, and does, use GPS equipment to record a coordinate value for points that he/she has surveyed. When a surveyor later retraces the location of that property corner, all evidence recovered must be evaluated in order to recover or replace the corner. That evidence comes in many forms: physical monuments, artificial monuments, distances or bearings. Coordinates are another form of evidence that can be considered by the retracing surveyor. However, the coordinate value is lower in importance than any other form of evidence with the exception of area (acreage). To consider GPS coordinates as the only source to replace or locate a property corner would be a serious error and one that would most likely result in the ...

Geocaching is a hi-tech version of treasure hunting that requires the use of handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations establish and maintain cache locations and publish the coordinate location of the caches on a website such as geocaching.com. A cache is a water-proof container that typically contains a log book, pencil and small pencil sharpener as well as a supply of trinkets and trade items. The treasurer hunter will visit www.geocaching.com and select caches they would like to find. When they find the cache, they sign the log book and may trade comparable items. Some people are in it just for the thrill of the hunt and may write "TNLN" in the logbook, a common notation for "Took nothing, left nothing". You can learn more about Geocaching at www.geocaching.com   Geocachers use GPS to find and set things that are not obvious to the eye. Land surveyors also use GPS (among lots of other cool and...