No one uses words like that anymore!” This statement, uttered with a laugh by someone to whom I was describing a recent deed…
Category: Column
08.19.2018
Thought Leader: Technology and the Demise of Surveying…Again
“Who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? —Job 38:2 This passage came to mind when I read a recent article by Stephen L….
08.19.2018
Vantage Point: Taking on a Dead Issue
Cemeteries: graveyards, burial grounds, areas set apart for internment of the dead. That’s a generic definition, but do we know a cemetery when…
08.19.2018
Reconnaissance: Protecting the Public?
Several years ago, a committee established by the Indiana Legislature at Governor Pence’s request determined in its preliminary findings that licensure of surveyors…
05.11.2018
Thought Leader: State Plane Coordinate System 2022
There are some big doings underway at the National Geodetic Survey. The word on the street is that we are getting a new…
05.09.2018
Vantage Point: Open Up and Let the Waters In
The concept of letting water into a building in order to protect it may seem a little perverse. But the idea is to…
04.11.2018
Thought Leader: To Seem is to Be
Ethics: The study of standards of conduct and moral judgment … deals with voluntary human actions on the basis of what is right…
04.11.2018
Vantage Point: One Parcel, Three Views
As surveyors, we encounter tracts of land that have different values depending upon who is making the assessment. Today’s example relates to a…
03.13.2018
Thought Leader: Stand Up and Be Heard
One of the best ways for an organization to advance is to have a unified voice, one that represents a broad spectrum of…
03.13.2018
Vantage Point: The Rest of the Story (Times Two)
Because of the lapse of several months between when articles are written and when they are published, occasionally some stories have postscripts that…
