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What Technology Cannot Replace

Interview: Dennis Kemmesat of Frontier Precision speaks to land surveyors about the role in surveying in agriculture...

The Quest for Precision, Productivity, Performance

The steady progression of technological advancements, and more importantly, the way the surveying community puts these tools to work, continues to reshape the...

Accuracy Over Aesthetics

Beneath the earth’s surface lies a complex network of utility pipes, lines, and cables, crucial to powering and servicing the day-to-day operations of...

Cupolas, Courthouses & Cracks

Historical beehives, leaky roofs, and seismic retrofit…. Three things you don’t typically talk about at the same time, unless of course, you are...

Breaking Loose -Or- How Death Grip Got His Name

Many years ago, 29 to be exact, Travis, our 19-year-old gang-member nephew, called to see if he could work on one of our...

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Maximizing Surveying Efficiency with Trimble CenterPoint RTX Technology

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Has Technology Made the Professional Surveyor Obsolete?

Editor’s note: The following article appeared in the September 2023 issue of PepTalks, published by the Mississippi Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers...

Tactile Maps

Most days, Ellen Zieleman and her guide dog, Sjef, make their rounds in Nijverdal, a village of 22,000 people in the Netherlands. A...

Supporting Public Schools in Planning for the Future

Running a school district of 220,000 students is a large and complicated job, but one that is made easier for Hillsborough County Public...

The U.S. Geodesy Crisis

Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the September 2023 of the Hydrographic Review Panel newsletter The current decline in the geodetic capacity in...

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Latest Issue

Volume 21 Issue 5 // December 2024

From the Editor

Re: Has Technology Made the Professional Surveyor Obsolete?

Thank you for bringing these articles back and please keep up the good work. A good reminder to our profession about the value…

Bad Backsights

Is it Intelligent to Attack the Artificial?

Artificial sweeteners—sounded good in theory, but now they are thought to be bad for us. Faux meat—real yecch. The synthesizer versus the electric…

Everything Is Somewhere

Reflections of a Former Former Land Surveyor

2001 was a big year for me: I quit a fundamentalist Christian cult and adopted new beliefs about the eternal, moved from the…

Vantage Point

Why Lawyers Need Surveyors

It’s always reassuring when lawyers acknowledge the value of the surveyor on the team. Our education and experience can help lawyers with their…

Product Review

Product Review: Better Aerial Targets, Better (& Less Polluting) Aerial Surveys

James M. Dickey, PLS, has been in the profession for more than 25 years, and has been a Principal at Cinquini & Passarino,…