Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
Author: Angus Stocking
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…
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…
GEODNET: Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network
A Permissionless, Blockchain-Enabled Network of 3,000 RTK Stations (and Counting) That May Be the Future of Precise Location
Assuming you’ve ever traveled by plane, train, ship, or automobile, or received a package in the mail or through a shipping company, or…
Everything is Somewhere: A Few Words in Favor of Libertarian Ideals
I read Carl C. de Baca’s (PLS) August 2023 column, Anatomy of a Conspiracy, with great interest and approval which perhaps is no…
The Noblest of Trades
Combining in a single profession—in a single day’s work, sometimes—mathematics, law, field work, historical investigation and sundry other skills, land surveying is rightly…
In Memoriam: Christopher Alexander
“Really one of the very largest problems that is facing the Earth just now, is rarely mentioned—and that is the spread of ugliness.”…