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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…