Category: Vantage Point

As often happens, reading a recent article not about surveying made me think about surveying. It was a piece about medical students and…

I am just back from a hiking vacation in Moab, Utah, visiting Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park and marveling at the…

It is always interesting to me to find out that people actually read what I write (I have no way to know unless…

It is always interesting to me to find out that people actually read what I write (I have no way to know unless…

No one uses words like that anymore!” This statement, uttered with a laugh by someone to whom I was describing a recent deed…

Cemeteries: graveyards, burial grounds, areas set apart for internment of the dead. That’s a generic definition, but do we know a cemetery when…

The concept of letting water into a building in order to protect it may seem a little perverse. But the idea is to…

As surveyors, we encounter tracts of land that have different values depending upon who is making the assessment. Today’s example relates to a…