Every point of the Earth is the center of its own horizon.” Roger Bacon, an early advocate of the scientific method, said that…
Category: Department
08.13.2025
Product Review: Stonex S999 Rover with Tablet
Stonex USA is headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, operating as an independent unit of the global conglomerate Stonex SRL based in Milan, Italy…
03.06.2025
FeedBack: My Experiences on the Border
I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Crattie’s brush-up on American border history. And in the process, it brought back a few memories of my own….
12.31.2024
Product Review: Better Aerial Targets, Better (& Less Polluting) Aerial Surveys
James M. Dickey, PLS, has been in the profession for more than 25 years, and has been a Principal at Cinquini & Passarino,…
11.02.2024
Book Review: The Measure of the Man
American surveyors are heirs to an enviable abundance of surveying history and lore that has accrued over the centuries of North America’s political…
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…
