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12.16.2025

#24 – Michael Daoud and Aleksandar Jevremovic

In this conversation, Michael Daoud and Aleksandar Jevremovic discuss the significant digital transformation of the Santa Barbara County Surveyor’s Office. They explore the…
12.01.2025

#23 – Yodan Rofe

In this episode, Angus talks with returning guest Yodan Rofe about Christopher Alexander’s four‑volume magnum opus, The Nature of Order, and its impact…
10.25.2025

Law. Land. Lines. Things Change: Roads and the Shifting Use Doctrine

What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at...
10.25.2025

Securing the Signals

Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a...
10.25.2025

AI at the Boundary

Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly...
10.25.2025

The Rest of the Story – Part 1

This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father...
10.25.2025

Mission: Possible

When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in...
10.25.2025

The Public Land Survey System Foundation Celebrates its 16th Anniversary

“Therefore, these organizations hereby create and institute a ‘Public Land Survey System Foundation’ (PLSSF) for the improvement of the surveying and mapping professions...
09.15.2025

Recreating Stonehenge in West Texas

In 2004, I had the rare opportunity to step outside the traditional boundaries of land surveying and contribute to one of the most...
09.15.2025

The Pioneering Professor Who Transformed Community Advocacy

In the early 1990s, environmental justice advocates across the US struggled to prove that marginalized communities faced disproportionate exposure to pollution and other...
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