Washington, Oct. 8—Construction input prices fell 0.6% in September and are down 1.7% year-over-year, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the…
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Carlson Software Leads Competition in All Metrics
Maysville, Kentucky, USA (September 2019) – Just as Carlson Software 2020 products are being released (carlsonsw.com/2020), those civil engineers and land surveyors thinking…
Golden Software Packages Now Available on GeoCloud SaaS Platform
Golden, Colorado, 7 October 2019 – Golden Software, a developer of affordable 2D and 3D scientific modeling packages, today announced that its six…
Map Idolatry
Are we putting too much stock in “the map” and not enough in “the information”? We seem to do that with the earliest…
GLO Plats: The History of the Hollywood Sign
The General Land Office is pleased to bring you the original survey plat for T1N R14W of the San Bernardino Meridian which is…
Decided Guidance: Richardson v. Register
“Bounds descriptions are the mark of nobility…‘I own to you and you own to me, there are no gaps or overlaps, and when…
A Zoological Datum
How Honey Bees Use Datums for Mapping and Navigation
“The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.” —Karl von Frisch,…
New Vertical Construction Technology
Scanning robotic total station combines two functions
In the 1950s, Ace Books began publishing Ace Doubles, which were two separate novels combined in a single volume. For example, a reader…
Bringing the Field into the Office in Real Time
Sometimes a project comes along that changes everything. For the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD), in Fort Worth, Texas, that project was the…
Test Yourself 66: Return of the Double Resection
What are the coordinates of points E and F? For the solution to this problem (and much more), please visit our website at:…