Author: Fred Roeder, LS

The following is a German legend which I found in a collection of folk-tales "Das Grosse Buch der Volkssagen" by Edmund Mudrak, upon…

Every self-­respecting surveyor knows that our first, third, and sixteenth Presidents had for a brief period in their lives been surveyors. But not…

Every literate American is familiar with the story of how the Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24. It has been told and retold…

Ninety-seven years after the Court of Private Land Claims (CPLC) completed its work to settle Spanish and Mexican land grants, the issue is…

I have long believed that surveying is truly the oldest profession, eons ahead of whatever is in second place. No other human activity…

The land where the condor soars between the towering peaks of the Andes would be the last place on earth to look for…

Sometimes surveyors make mistakes, but while the blunders of other professionals such as doctors are soon dead and buried, ours tend to acquire…

On a recent flight from Frankfurt to Atlanta I whiled away the seemingly endless hours by reading The Da Vinci Code. I am…

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."´   —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Unlike many of his peers who…

In response to a pointer from Earl F. Burkholder I recently read an interesting book with the eye-catching title of: The Mapmaker’s Wife,…