No, not the marvelous monuments in the sky we call GPS. Rather the ones responsible for the crop circles that have appeared all…
Author: Amerisurv-Editor
01.29.2024
Bad Backsights: Estates Sales & Moonlighting
Last month Laurie and I were driving through Carmichael or maybe it was Fair Oaks, on the way into Sacramento when…
01.29.2024
Land Surveying & Crop Circles
I am interested in crop circles and believe them to be a perplexingly powerful phenomenon that demands serious investigation not because I am…
01.29.2024
Augmented Reality and Boundaries
Augmented Reality (AR) is here. TV sports fans experience it as an imaginary line superimposed onto a football field indicating where the ball…
01.29.2024
Deprecate Grid Distance Dimensions
and use horizontal ground distance dimensions only…
The anomaly of having two nearly identical units of linear measurement has led the USA to discontinue the use of the “US Survey…
01.29.2024
I Almost Died Today
The personal, handwritten, journal of the surveyor started a little differently this time. It simply stated, “I almost died today.” The surveyor was…
01.29.2024
Book Review: William A. Richards: Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor in Nebraska and Wyoming
This reviewer shall initiate this book review by ‘returning’ to a Wyoming secondary school in 1958 (an arbitrary date sentimental to the reviewer)….
01.29.2024
Vantage Point: La-la-la, I Can’t Hear You!
Sometimes it seems the biggest job we have is helping clients recognize what it is that they really need, which is not always…
01.23.2024
ABC: A Record 89.3% of the U.S. Construction Industry Is Not Part of a Union
Washington, Jan. 23—According to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2023 Union Members Summary released today,…
01.22.2024
Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors Announces Conference
The Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors, ASPLS, is hosting a conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on February 22, 23, and 24, Thursday, Friday,…
