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08.12.2023

How Much Will the Survey Cost?

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08.12.2023

2023 World Record: One Cool Ride

The ice carousel is a cold-climate community cultural phenomenon with Finnish origins, possibly dating from the 19th century1. Smaller-sized ice carousels were sporadically...
08.12.2023

From Blender Blades to Helicopter Blades

It’s the same story heard time and time again among surveyors. The story of how you found surveying. Other than the ones whose...
08.12.2023

Monuments Going Up in Smoke

Let’s talk wildfire, or more specifically, let’s talk about the effects on boundary monuments by wildfire. Even more specifically, let’s talk about heavy...
08.12.2023

Colorizing Lidar Point Clouds

With the advent of easy, convenient, and available GPS coverage around 1999, lidar has become the standard for delivering timely and accurate 3D...
08.12.2023

Boeing Engineers Create Record-Setting Paper Airplane

Let’s face it. There isn’t a lot about flying paper airplanes that is noteworthy, much less having an article in a magazine on...
06.10.2023

Exclusive Report from the FIG Working Week in Orlando

This year’s gathering of the International Federation of Surveyors (Federation Internationale des Geometres, or FIG) was held in Orlando, Florida, USA. If you...
06.10.2023

When Worlds Collide

“All maps state an argument…” —J. B. Harley, 1989 There’s a popular poster of the world composed of satellite images, with continents arrayed...
06.10.2023

Reaching Out

Amidst a global effort to inspire the next generation of young professionals to become land surveyors, mappers, and geospatial experts, DRMP is doing...
06.10.2023

Carlson Software Part II: Competing as a Means of Contributing

Part one of this interview with Bruce Carlson covered the early days, when he was just getting started in software and included stories...
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