The American Surveyor

The American Surveyor Magazine – Jan/Feb 2004, Vol.1 No.1 – Table of Contents

Field of Flags
A Civil War battlefield hosts a stirring memorial to the victims of September 11.
Trenton D. Turk, LS
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Editor’s Corner
Welcome to our Charter Issue!
By Allen Cheves & Marc Cheves, LS
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Point to Point
The Associate Editor asks the question, Do we need a national Record of Survey?
By Joel Leininger, LS
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Rowland Houghton’s “Theodolate”
According to the Acts of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this was the first surveying instrument to be patented in the American Colonies.
By Jeff Lock
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ProFile
First in a series of contemporary portraits of American surveyors and the companies they work for.
By Marc Cheves, LS
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EarthData International
Vision, experience and a spirit of adventure transform a regional mapping company into an international leader in geospatial technologies.
By Marc Cheves, LS
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Is the surveying profession capable of learning from its past mistakes?
By Walter G. Robillard, LS, Esq.
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Infusing GIS with Data Accuracy
A good-natured examination of the rivalry between GIS and surveying.
By Gavin Schrock, LS
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The Line Between Sandstone and Quartzite
When this early GLO surveyor called a piece of “red flint” a “sandstone,” he never anticipated the legal challenge that would follow.
By Jerry Penry, LS
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Test Yourself
Brush up on your surveying knowledge by answering questions similar to those of the NCEES land surveying exams.
By Richard L. Elgin, PhD, LS, PE
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57kb – Without Answers
Management Online
Mining the full potential of the Intranet.
By Fred Henstridge, LS
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Washington View
There are many ways that legislation proposed by Congress and the federal government affects the average surveyor.
By Laurence Socci
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It’s the Journey and the Goal:
The Argument for Process Control of Deliverables

Why do surveyors have a difficult time providing quality deliverables to mapping professionals who are notoriously bad at quantifying their
spatial error?
By Karen Zollman
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