American surveyors are heirs to an enviable abundance of surveying history and lore that has accrued over the centuries of North America’s political…
Category: Department
11.02.2024
FeedBack: Taming the Glorious AI
Your article in the July-August issue highlights well what has been & what we should expect to follow with AI, which I sarcastically…
08.24.2024
Book Review: Temenos: The Design and Experience of Urbanism as Spiritual Path
Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
08.24.2024
FeedBack: Absolute Accuracy, The Pier Stone, and Errata
Absolute Accuracy, The Pier Stone As usual another excellent publication, I especially like Marc’s comments related to Dr. Abdullah’s article and the need…
01.29.2024
Book Review: William A. Richards: Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor in Nebraska and Wyoming
This reviewer shall initiate this book review by ‘returning’ to a Wyoming secondary school in 1958 (an arbitrary date sentimental to the reviewer)….
11.01.2023
Test Yourself 88: The Three Radii
Isosceles triangle abc has three equal radii circles inscribed as shown. What is distance db if ad equals 1.000? For the solution to…
08.12.2023
FeedBack: New Wave of Attacks on Surveying
I heard an interesting political analogy the other day, and it caused me to reflect on the many discussions and varying interests within…
06.10.2023
FeedBack
Gannet’s Observatory Great article about the U of Oregon observatory in Eugene and especially the work of Samuel Gannett. While sadly the observatory…
06.10.2023
Test Yourself 87: Beside Yourself
Find the area of triangle ABC in terms of its sides only, and without using Heron’s formula. For the solution to this problem…
04.16.2023
Test Yourself 86: Another Missing Part
Given the angles shown, what is angle BDC? The solution can be found HERE
