Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
Category: Book Review
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)….
03.03.2020
Book Review: Putting California on the Map
Von Schmidt’s Lines
By David Carle | Phalarope Press ISBN-13: 978-1987736434 ISBN-10: 1987736435 208 pp Land Surveying has a very rich history in these United States…
02.15.2018
Book Review: Boundary Retracement: Processes and Procedures by Donald A. Wilson, PS
CRC Press, 2017 (475 pages, e-book and hardcover)
When I was in my mid-twenties and learning the honorable profession of land surveying, I was lucky to be guided by a mentor…
07.22.2017
Book Review: Patrick Chura’s Thoreau The Land Surveyor
A 192Kb PDF of this article as it appeared in the magazine—complete with images—is available by clicking HERE
