No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…
Author: Amerisurv-Editor
05.11.2025
Pragmatic Mystic
Christopher Alexander’s Vision of a Living World
In 2005 I reviewed the first two books of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-book magnum opus, The Nature of Order in two columns—Life, the…
05.11.2025
Connect the Physical World to the Digital World with OpenUSD
As new methods of reality capture proliferate and produce massive volumes of detailed information, interoperability and standardization are key to realizing the full…
05.11.2025
How Survey Monuments Came to Be Considered Holy Relics
My survey career began in the metropolitan area of Denver, Co in 1971. The ALTA standards had been promulgated but were not yet…
05.11.2025
Public Works Pioneers Drones-as-a-Service Program for Salem, Oregon
River Road in Salem frequently experiences landslides due to hillside creep and cracks. Drone imagery processed in Site Scan for ArcGIS was used…
05.11.2025
Here’s Your Sign
How LiDAR and GIS are Modernizing Road Sign Inventories for Safer Travel in West Virginia
The West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) needed a solution to modernize its road sign inventory and identify areas for updates or replacements…
05.11.2025
What Technology Cannot Replace
Dennis Kemmesat of Frontier Precision Speaks to Surveyors
Employee-owned Frontier Precision was founded in Bismarck, ND in 1988, and has since expanded to South Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Hawaii,…
05.11.2025
Bamboozled
There’s a new form of trespass in town, and it can stump the most diligent property owner. It can also stump surveyors trying…
05.11.2025
Thoughts on Licensure and Chesterton’s Fence
A recent article from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ webpage infrastructurereportcard.org provided numerous examples of an on-going effort across many of these…
05.09.2025
Carlson Software: A Commitment to American Made
Maysville, Kentucky, USA (May 8, 2025)– As part of its major commitment to bring manufacturing of precision measurement instruments back to the United States,…
