Table of Contents – The American Surveyor – Vol.12, No7 2015

Editorial:
Knowing What We Don’t Know
By Marc Cheves, PS
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Survey Locales
Another great Daryl Moistner shot from Alaska.
By Daryl Moistner
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Angle Points: The Lost Art of Land Surveying
Adequate field notes, and knowing the difference between a tool and a technique.
By Michael J. Pallamary, PS
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Vantage Point: No Title
Cautionary tales against believing everything we read in a title report.
By Wendy Lathrop, PS, CFM
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The Curt Brown Chronicles: Engineers and Surveying
Excerpts from the Fourth National Surveying Teachers Conference in 1957.
Compiled By Michael J. Pallamary, PS
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The Final Voyage
A 2,500 mile, 5 month long river trip would be an odyssey of epic proportions for an aging boat and its crews.
By Eric Stahlke, PS
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Scanning a Building in Motion
DAVIS Construction uses laser scanning to smooth out record-breaking building move in Washington, D.C.
By Angus Stocking, PS
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Staking a Claim to the Future
Western New York firm finds conventional survey is a gateway to providing additional expertise.
By Larry Trojak
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When Two Worlds Collide
An iPad app gives remote Alaskan crews GPS support, offline mapping, custom forms and an open database.
By Michael Gundling
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HP35s Calculator, a Field Surveyor’s Companion: Part 10— Distance Dependent Intersections
Exhaust every shred of physical evidence before using a direction/distance intersection.
By Jason E. Foose, PS
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FeedBack
One of the more rewarding aspects of property research is holding in your hands …
By Various
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Reconnaissance: Lender’s Certificates
Our ALTA expert provides examples of the ridiculous and the ludicrous.
By Gary Kent, PS
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