The American Surveyor Magazine – July/Aug 2005, Vol.2 No.5 – Table of Contents

Editorial:
By Marc S. Cheves, LS
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Point to Point:  Uncalled-for Monuments
Monuments with unknown provenance in retracement.
By Joel Leininger, LS
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Fabric of Surveying:  Measure, Mark, Inventory and Pattern: Public Art Meets the PLSS.
Where cadastral surveyors left off, artist Jerry Mayer preserves their footsteps.
By Karla Powell and Tim Kent, LS
76kb
Parametrics
Productivity tools don’t always improve workflow.
By Joseph W. Betit, LS
235kb
Free Open Source Software:  Linux
Part Two in a discussion of data formats, including open source software and open data standards.
By Loren J. Gibson, LS
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Surging Demand, Opportunity & Fresh Product
A review of the SPAR 2005 conference in Houston..
By Bruce Jenkins
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Aiheitdis Freekinjaab
Got spam clogging your inbox? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek visit to the “other side of the web.”
By Gavin Schrock, LS
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IndustryInsider:  Schonstedt: Finding New Paths
A visit to Schonstedt headquarters in Kearneysville, West Virginia.
By Angus W. Stocking
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Reconnaissance:  Lender Certificates–Just Say "No"
A word of caution about signing long-form surveyor’s certificates.
By Gary Kent, LS
76kb
Vantage Point:   Eminently Unfair?
Is the pressure to condemn properties in the name of economic growth increasing?
By Wendy Lathrop, LS, CFM
273kb
Software Review:
ptbase by CBI Systems, Ltd.
By Joseph H. Bell, LS
520kb
Everything is Somewhere:  The Process of Creating Life
A look at structure-preserving transformations as put forth by Christopher Alexander in The Nature of Order.
By Angus W. Stocking
119kb
Feedback
 
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Test Yourself:
Solving a Vertical Curve.
By Richard L. Elgin, PhD, LS, PE
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