The ultimate judicial function of a surveyor is to help maintain a stable society through artistic measuring of land boundaries. Our most valuable…
Category: Column
12.18.2019
Small(ish) Boxes, Big Ruckus
We crave fast digital access no matter where we are. We have even come to expect it to the extent that I’ve seen…
11.14.2019
Thought Leader: Analog Land Measuring
It looks like the EU’s civilian operated Galileo constellation recently had a few hiccups and measuring this big old ball is still proving…
11.14.2019
Vantage Point: Going Out with a Sigh
A 381Kb PDF of this article as it appeared in the magazine—complete with images—is available by clicking HERE
11.14.2019
Vantage Point: They Signed What?!
The title of this month’s article was my reaction on reading a case early this summer that was decided by the Stark County…
11.14.2019
Reconnaissance: Liability, Battles and Wars
There is a trend that was addressed in this column about two years ago, but that deserves another look since it is a…
10.05.2019
Map Idolatry
Are we putting too much stock in “the map” and not enough in “the information”? We seem to do that with the earliest…
10.05.2019
Take Two: SCOTUS Upends What We Thought We Knew
Just about a year ago, I wrote about Rose Mary Knick’s suit against Scott Township in Pennsylvania (“Taking on a Dead Issue,” August…
08.03.2019
Crowdsourcing and Volunteered Geographic Information
Crowdsourcing and VGI (volunteered geographic information) have been described by one commentator as “more than a threat to the surveying community” and a…
08.03.2019
Dirty Stories
If our homes are our castles, we should be able to do pretty much anything we want there, right? Well, not exactly. There…
