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A National Test
Different states license surveyors to provide different services relevant to each respective jurisdiction. Our common function in every state is focused on boundary…
Random Points
Random Points: Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
The Business of Surveying
The Business of Surveying: Is Your Survey Practice Planning for Success?
While surveyors are licensed by each state to protect public health, safety, and welfare, in order to be in business a private practice…
Vantage Point
Vantage Point: No Way Out
The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance: The Art of Retracement and the Surveyor’s Role
Traditionally, and almost universally, professional surveyors have been taught to survey the written title and to direct their client to seek the advice…
GLO Plats
GLO Record of the Week: William Henry Clark
This GLO Record of the Week is about William Henry Clark (W.H. Clark), one of the first surveyors in what is now the…
Decided Guidance—Case Examinations
Decided Guidance: Hill v Richey
The 1952 Louisiana Supreme Court case of Hill v. Richey (59 So. 2d 434 221 La. 402) reinforces some elementary concepts but also…
Test Yourself
Test Yourself 73: Find The Areas
Find the areas of the parcels on each side of the roadway, excluding the roadway. For the solution to this problem (and much…
