Are we putting too much stock in “the map” and not enough in “the information”? We seem to do that with the earliest…
Category: Column
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…
06.23.2019
The Importance of Records
No doubt we are in the information age and some are saying we are entering the knowledge age. Land records are at the…
06.23.2019
Nature versus a Sense of Place
Choosing where to settle and live is complicated, not a simple task of technical analysis and check boxes. Competing factors include affordability, convenience…
05.25.2019
Our Broad Scope of Services
From the day that Europeans set foot in America the surveyor has been expected to document feature attributes including flora, fauna, soil classifications,…
05.25.2019
Turf Wars, Flood Data, and Professionalism
Sometimes it is hard to pigeon-hole events into a single category to be able to come up with a title that will appropriately…
04.19.2019
A National Certified Floodplain Surveyor Program?
Every surveyor is capable of completing Section C on the Elevation Certificate, the Elevation section on the MT-EZ form and Form 2, the…
04.19.2019
Universal Lessons from a Failed Permit Suit
News stories often provoke thoughts about how we as surveyors can better “protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public” relying upon…
