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Hexagon Completes Acquisition of Septentrio
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The Origins of National Surveyors Week
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ABC Praises Legislation To Restore Merit to Federal and Federally Assisted Contracting
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SBG Systems Introduces New GNSS Receiver Variants for Navsight, Apogee and Ekinox
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Latest Issue
Volume 22 Issue 1 // May 2025
Departments
Guest Editorial
Making Do With Less?
Pundits have proclaimed for years that our society has peaked, and subsequent generations will have it harder than the one before. Everything is…
Bad Backsights
Creation Myth
No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…
Everything Is Somewhere
Pragmatic Mystic
In 2005 I reviewed the first two books of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-book magnum opus, The Nature of Order in two columns—Life, the…
Vantage Point
Bamboozled
There’s a new form of trespass in town, and it can stump the most diligent property owner. It can also stump surveyors trying…
Reconnaissance
Thoughts on Licensure and Chesterton’s Fence
A recent article from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ webpage infrastructurereportcard.org provided numerous examples of an on-going effort across many of these…