Public Assistance hours (aka "counter hours")

Greetings!

Starting on March 5, 2012 we will have Public Assistance counter hours as follows:

Monday          8 am - 11 am

Tuesday         8 am - 11 am and 1 pm - 4 pm

Wednesday    8 am - 11 am

Thursday        1 pm -  4 pm

Friday             Closed

Appointments are welcomed, please call 408-299-5728 to request an appointment.

We will continue to answer phone calls during regular business hours on regular working days 7:30 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday.

Free 1 hour parking is still available in the parking lot at southeast corner of Hedding and San Pedro Streets.

This is in an effort to help our small but mighty staff be more efficient in customer service and still be effective in maintaining our County Surveyor functions.

If you have comments or suggestions, please email them to county.surveyor@pln.sccgov.org

Thank you in advance for your patience.

Visit our website at www.sccgov.org/sccsurveyor

Revised fee for R/S

The Record of Survey fee is revised.  The submittal fee amount is still $600.  Instead of an additional fee for each sheet, there will be a billable fee for staff time that exceeds the fee amount.  The $600 is a non-refundable fee that will be charged at the time of submittal.

The recording fee for maps remain the same.
$8.00 for the first sheet, $2.00 for each sheet thereafter.
There is now an additional fee of $5.00 for each conformed copy.

Credit & Debit Cards now accepted

Yes, we are now accepting credit cards and debit cards for fees.  Like many other County departments, there will be a fee for using this.

Transaction fees are as follows:

     Minimum transaction fee of $3.95 for charges up to $175

     2.25% transaction fee for charges over $175

For questions contact:

  Surveyor/LDE

  Phone: (408) 299-5730



Research for maps?

Yes, we are still in the "low" tech era when it comes to maps and records researching.
What keeps us from getting into the "high" tech era is of course money and cooperation.

Here's a couple of questions that will help us target your needs.

We have a database for recorded maps and Corner Records.
What file format or what program would be more beneficial to you?  i.e. MS Access, FileMaker Pro

How do you typically search by? street? APN? County Grid number?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

G

Homebuyers shouldn't ignore importance of getting survey | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

Thought I'd share with you as as I was browsing through my emails, this one caught my eye....




Homebuyers shouldn't ignore importance of getting survey CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

One more thing about GPS

One thing I want to mention is the looming threat to lose our GPS that we rely on so dearly. Please check out the link below. Short story is that a company LightSquared is on the verge of putting all our our survey grade GPS outta whack....how? INTERFERENCE. Simply put. We rely on having a good signal for good results (yes, along with a few other good things) Now imagine our GPS couldn't pick up a signal for initialization or  get connected to a base station. That would be a bummer. We expect that every now and then which then usually follows up with a call to tech. support. But imagine if all that expensive equipment just won't pick up a signal anymore....that would be a big time bummer. Don't think we want to go back to the way we "used to do" it in this day and economy.


I invite you to check out the following website. Read it for yourself, make your own decision.

Save Our GPS at  http://www.saveourgps.org/

We didn't get on the GIS train when it came, I hate to see us get passed up again.

ACSM - Survey Summit - ESRI UC Conference

Hi all,

San Diego was definitely where is was all at.
Well at least for surveying and mapping with some good weather too.

While our shrinking survey profession continues to survive, the GIS community grew a bit.  The ESRI User Conference had 15,000 attendees this year.  This is the first I've attended both.  The Survey Summit registration gets you into the first two days of the ESRI User Conference.  There couldn't have been more of a sharper contrast that these two conferences, yet our work interlaces in many ways.  Perhaps we could someday ride the GIS wave like a surfer does on a surf board.  I'll leave that for another discussion or post.

For the conference information:


Survey Summit   http://www.surveysummit.com/index.html

ESRI User Conference  http://www.esri.com/events/user-conference/index.html

Maybe see you at the next gathering....
Gwen