Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…
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12.31.2020
2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys Adopted
After two years of concentrated effort and the input of many interested persons including several hundred surveyors, the American Land Title Association and…
11.29.2020
A National Test
Different states license surveyors to provide different services relevant to each respective jurisdiction. Our common function in every state is focused on boundary…
11.29.2020
Random Points: Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
11.29.2020
The Business of Surveying: Is Your Survey Practice Planning for Success?
While surveyors are licensed by each state to protect public health, safety, and welfare, in order to be in business a private practice…
11.29.2020
Vantage Point: No Way Out
The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…
11.29.2020
Reconnaissance: The Art of Retracement and the Surveyor’s Role
Traditionally, and almost universally, professional surveyors have been taught to survey the written title and to direct their client to seek the advice…
09.27.2020
Number One in the World, Second to None
Javad Ashjaee (1949-2020)
It was at the 2000 ACSM Conference in Little Rock that I first met Javad Ashjaee in person. During that visit and many…
09.27.2020
Vantage Point: The Devil’s in the (Professional) Details
Not long after earning my first surveying license, one of the other party chiefs in the company we both worked for felt inspired…
07.12.2020
The Value of Field Notes
Why would anyone need to keep field notes in this day and age? Everything is electronically time stamped with a location pre-computed through…
