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Special Report for Improving Underground Utility Locating Practices
Google Fiber, North Carolina 811 and Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities identify drivers of risk and opportunities
As states roll out infrastructure improvements such as new fiber builds, increasing the efficiency of the underground damage prevention process is essential to…
Absolute Accuracy
The latest issue of our sister publication, LIDAR Magazine, recently contained an article that caught my eye. While the article is ostensibly about…
Psychic Surveying
I used to listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio show when driving across the desert at night. His shows were full…
The Pier Stone, and Thomas Jefferson as Geomancer-in-Chief
Probably the majority of American land surveyors know of the Jefferson Pier’s existence, while at the same time having only hazy and subtly…
Ginsburg Versus Scalia
Textualism and the Delaware River State Boundary
Ideological boundaries are nebulous compared with those land divisions precisely marked out by surveyors. Both types of divides were on display in a…
Shooting Polaris Part 2
In a previous issue of American Surveyor (March-April, 2024) I stated the premise of the problem I wanted to solve…
Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards
Accuracy assessments must take errors in ground control network into account
…surveyors using real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning are far too optimistic about their true accuracy…
Washed Away Boundaries
I was fascinated by the February 2024 conviction of someone in Michigan who had purposely diverted a river—by hand. It took about a…
The Five General Areas of Due Diligence
We’ve all seen television ads for car companies that offer to buy your used car online. You fill out a short questionnaire, they…
