02.08.2021

The Quest for the Highest Point

Determining the elevation of the world’s most famous mountain is not as simple as taking a GNSS receiver to the summit. The newest…
02.08.2021

Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 1

Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS surveying is great, but one of the biggest challenges in the field is having sufficient UHF radio range…
02.08.2021

Godspeed Gold Dredge No. 8 versus Fairbanks Gold

As a surveyor in Alaska there are tales of travails in the field which appear in many journals. The biggest was the boundary…
02.08.2021

From a Pit to a Park

Often derided as eyesores or environmental risks, areas such as capped landfills, depleted mines and spent gravel pits are finding new life as…
11.29.2020

Getting Off on the Wrong Foot

Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT)…
11.29.2020

Waterways & Earth Days Part 1

About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
11.29.2020

Growing the Numbers

Imagine planting enough new trees to cover a plot of land the size of Switzerland. Now do it again and again, nearly 500…
11.29.2020

Culver City: Previous Blast as a Catalyst for Change

On June 16, 1976, the community of Venice Boulevard in Culver City, California, was humming with construction for a street-widening project. But then,…
09.27.2020

Don’t Regret, Hire a Vet

Although Dan MacDonald, P.L.S., is passionate about a lot of things—his family, the outdoors, surveying, and good food immediately come to mind—he is…
09.27.2020

Ohio Department of Transportation RTN

From “The heart of it all” in the City of Columbus, the Ohio Department of Transportation has been pumping out a statewide RTN…
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