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05.16.2022

Shedding Light on a Dark Project

What often gets lost in the gloss of large construction projects are the small, precise elements that lead to the high-profile finish—the nitty...
05.16.2022

Let’s Fly It!

In November 2019 my company, Plisga & Day Land Surveyors in Bangor, Maine, was suddenly faced with three big projects that were open...
05.16.2022

Seabees, Marine Engineers & Their Mysteries on Iwo Jima

Having found a family connection with Iwo Jima in 2016, we are in the midst of an odyssey to discover what happened to...
05.16.2022

Construing Descriptions for Riparian Tracts

Upland Conveyances, Generally For nearly all states, on a river navigable for title, the upland’s riparian boundary with the State (owning the riverbed)...
03.13.2022

Carlson PhotoCapture and xML2

Carlson Software has greatly expanded its product line over its 38-year history, and recently has introduced two new products that represent technology breakthroughs:...
03.13.2022

Exploring the Mystery of Nantucket’s Meridian Stones

In 1840 the astronomer and surveyor William Mitchell erected two white marble obelisks on perpendicular sidewalks in the Town of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These...
03.13.2022

Ship Scanning Sets Sail

Engineering surveyor Danie Roelvert is a strong believer in one particular guiding principle: what is yours will come to you when it’s ready....
03.13.2022

Making Maps in Ireland

I joined Northern Irelands Ordnance Survey in 1966. Truly it was an organisation that hadn’t changed for more than one hundred years. Hardly...
01.29.2022

Exhibition of Jo Mora’s Whimsical Map Delights

Pass between stone sphinxes and cross the sunlit space beneath the muraled rotunda of the Los Angeles Central Library and you’ll arrive at...
01.29.2022

Twice Told Tales

A survey retracement in 2019, a forest fire in 2020, and a re-visit in 2021 result in unexpected surprises
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