For a long time, I thought land surveyors enjoyed the same mobility as engineers and architects. After all, state licensing boards created NCEES…
Category: Thought Leader
12.18.2019
A Paradigm Shift
The ultimate judicial function of a surveyor is to help maintain a stable society through artistic measuring of land boundaries. Our most valuable…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
03.09.2019
Thought Leader: Orlando in ‘23
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley.”*
With apologies to Robert Frost: We revisit our plan for Orlando, Florida in 2022, where we had intended to host a Congress of…
02.10.2019
Thought Leader: The Secret Society—The Way I Remember It
I was rummaging through the garage a few days ago and discovered a buckled-up package that looked like a film canister. Sure enough…
