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From the Editor
From the Editor: Rules for Tools?
What and why are you measuring? Your answers define the offer of professional services. If you don’t own the “what” and the “why”…
The Business of Surveying
The Business of Surveying: Creating Your Firm’s Business Plan
Last month, I wrote about business planning in general. This column is specifically about a business plan. Whether you are the principal, owner,…
Vantage Point
Vantage Point: Getting “To” the Point
Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…
Reconnaissance
2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys Adopted
After two years of concentrated effort and the input of many interested persons including several hundred surveyors, the American Land Title Association and…
Decided Guidance—Case Examinations
Decided Guidance: Back to Ohio
In the January 2020 installment of Decided Guidance we visited the First Seven Ranges of The USPLSS in Guernsey County, Ohio. We’re going…
GLO Plats
GLO Record Plat: Muir Woods National Monument
A Proclamation Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested…
Test Yourself
Test Yourself 74: Find the Angles and Distances
Find angles A and C and lengths AD and EC. For the solution to this problem (and much more), please visit our website…