The new issue is full of great content. Some publications use editorial themes, but in my 30+ years of magazine publishing I have…
Category: Column
02.01.2026
Shinbok
In my first five years as a young surveyor, I had the privilege of working with a PLS who was maybe ten years…
02.01.2026
The 2026 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
What’s Changed?
After over three years of work by the Joint ALTA/NSPS Work Group, the 2026 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys…
02.01.2026
Playing Nicely — It’s Complicated
Surveyors know that an easement is a right to use someone else’s property for some specific purpose. The property that is being used…
02.01.2026
A Condition of Life at Every Scale
States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of…
10.25.2025
The Age of Disbelief
We are entering into a time when we will have trouble believing our lying eyes. So far, AI appears to be mostly used…
10.25.2025
Bad Backsights: It’s Only Money
Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…
10.25.2025
Vantage Point: Stepping Up to Fill the Gaps
This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…
08.13.2025
What’s Your Story?
Several years ago, Angus Stocking wrote the following: We are working in hills above the Pacific Ocean, retracing GLO corners set more than…
08.13.2025
Licensing Boards
In the latest setback for the integrity of licensure and the protection of professions, some states are ‘streamlining’ their boards of regulation by…
