Author: Amerisurv-Editor

Pennsylvania surveyor Willi Schmidt has written about my distaste for the phrase, "art of surveying." He was accurate in portraying my reaction to a term that…

At the outset, I will admit that I am not an expert in GPS. That said, I have a few questions for surveyors…

If they were to return to observe our routine procedures for a day, our predecessors of 30 years ago would not likely recognize…

Here is a pop quiz on your Y2K preparedness: Have you installed that new generator yet? How is your bottled water cache coming…

Much has been written about the advantages of Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) for professional services. The Brooks Act, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited…

Let me state for the record that I am, and have been for some time, on the fence with respect to whether a…

Uncalled-for monuments are the bane of retracement surveyors everywhere. "Who placed this here and what did they know that I don’t?" The fact…

In a fee dispute a few years ago, an Alabama appeals court ruled that the responsible surveyor had not exercised appropriate supervision during…