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12.04.2022

Law Land Lines: Property Law and the Transformation of Seattle’s Terrain

Scripture envisages a time when “Every valley shall be lifted up/ every mountain and hill made low / and the uneven ground shall...
12.04.2022

Double Vision

In the ever-evolving world of construction, the need for surveyors to stay ahead of the technology curve is critical. New techniques for building,...
12.04.2022

From Model Ts to Model Communities

For more than 80 years, the Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant, located along the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s...
11.10.2022

It’s a Long Way to the Top

American Surveyor caught up with Frontier Precision Founder & CEO Dennis Kemmesat at Trimble Dimensions 2022 to discuss what’s working for today’s most...
09.24.2022

Real-Time Certainty

When crews set off for an ambitious survey project of the lower Colorado River in late fall 2021, they were carrying an additional...
09.24.2022

Rock Fall Analysis

It had been two long days working in the remote Kings River canyon and finally the last flight was being prepared. The drone...
09.24.2022

Witness to History

The overwhelming majority of Topcon equipment at work today can be found on job sites around the world—projects ranging from massive development excavations...
09.24.2022

The Noblest of Trades

Combining in a single profession—in a single day’s work, sometimes—mathematics, law, field work, historical investigation and sundry other skills, land surveying is rightly...
07.11.2022

The Stick Wigglers

The one person on the survey crew that is completely indispensable is the helicopter pilot. The job could not be accomplished without them....
07.11.2022

In Memoriam: Christopher Alexander

“Really one of the very largest problems that is facing the Earth just now, is rarely mentioned—and that is the spread of ugliness.”...
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