By the time you read this, the “most important election in the history of our country” will have occurred, and no matter which…
Category: Column
11.02.2024
Bad Backsights: A Matter of Degrees
It seems like the fastest way to get into a vigorous debate, if not an outright argument, with your fellow surveyor is to…
11.02.2024
Vantage Point: FFRMS, Version 2024
FFRMS… It’s a mouthful of consonants but easier to say (or type) than “Federal Flood Risk Management Standard.” Having a broad-based FFRMS means…
08.24.2024
Guest Editorial: Educating Our Staff
A Call to Action for Land Surveyors
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” – Henry Ford…
08.24.2024
Bad Backsights: Freedom of Speech—What Does It Mean?
The First Amendment to the US Constitution enshrines the Freedom of Speech, along with the Freedom of Religion, right to assemble peaceably and…
08.24.2024
Vantage Point: Taming the Glorious AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pervading nearly every aspect of our lives. Businesses use it, educators use it, students use it, creative artists use…
08.24.2024
Reconnaissance: And What Are We Doing Out Here?
Most surveyors, at least over the last few decades, were taught and have practiced boundary surveying consistent with Curtis Brown’s principle “The surveyor…
06.10.2024
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…
06.10.2024
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…
06.10.2024
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…
