Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…
Author: Amerisurv-Editor
10.25.2025
Vantage Point: Stepping Up to Fill the Gaps
This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…
10.25.2025
Law. Land. Lines. Things Change: Roads and the Shifting Use Doctrine
What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at…
10.25.2025
Securing the Signals
How Trimble RTX-NMA Protects GNSS From Spoofing
Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a…
10.25.2025
AI at the Boundary
Using ChatGPT to Explore Survey-Related Law and Case Precedent
Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly…
10.25.2025
The Rest of the Story – Part 1
This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father…
10.25.2025
Mission: Possible
A Schoolkid, His Surveyor Dad, and a Full 3D Scan of a Lost Landmark
When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in…
10.25.2025
Book Reviews: The Dusty Bookshelf
Every point of the Earth is the center of its own horizon.” Roger Bacon, an early advocate of the scientific method, said that…
10.25.2025
The Public Land Survey System Foundation Celebrates its 16th Anniversary
“Therefore, these organizations hereby create and institute a ‘Public Land Survey System Foundation’ (PLSSF) for the improvement of the surveying and mapping professions…
10.23.2025
Geo Week 2026 Conference Program and Speakers Announced
More than 50 sessions will tackle complex challenges during North America’s leading geospatial event Portland, Maine – USA, October 23, 2025 – Organizers…
