Editor’s note: The following article appeared in the September 2023 issue of PepTalks, published by the Mississippi Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers…
Category: Feature
11.02.2024
Tactile Maps
Creating a View of the World for Those Who Have Vision Loss
Most days, Ellen Zieleman and her guide dog, Sjef, make their rounds in Nijverdal, a village of 22,000 people in the Netherlands. A…
11.02.2024
Supporting Public Schools in Planning for the Future
Running a school district of 220,000 students is a large and complicated job, but one that is made easier for Hillsborough County Public…
11.02.2024
The U.S. Geodesy Crisis
The entire geospatial economy is supported by geodesy!
Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the September 2023 of the Hydrographic Review Panel newsletter The current decline in the geodetic capacity in…
11.02.2024
Ode to the Little Guy
Charles (Karl) Preuss, Surveyor and Cartographer of Fremont’s 1st Expedition •1842•
Those who started surveying before EDM, GPS, and one man survey crews are well aware of the martial legacy of our profession, made…
08.24.2024
Reconnaissance On The Border
In June of 2023, I began research for a lengthy, multi-part article dealing with the boundary line with our neighbors to the south,…
08.24.2024
Tale of a Troubled Township
I’m sure many surveyors doing research have occasionally looked for one thing and ended up unexpectedly finding something else. About ten years ago,…
08.24.2024
The Sun is Heating Up, But Stay Cool
Practical Advice as Solar Cycle 25 Peaks
By now, you’ve likely heard about Solar Cycle 25, the time when solar sunspot activity is highest—and GNSS signal reliability is at the…
08.24.2024
Fulfilling a Long-Time Dream at the 5th Annual Women Surveyors Summit 2024
At the 5th Annual Women Surveyors Summit, I had the privilege of joining an incredible group of 126 women in the field, marking…
06.10.2024
Ginsburg Versus Scalia
Textualism and the Delaware River State Boundary
Ideological boundaries are nebulous compared with those land divisions precisely marked out by surveyors. Both types of divides were on display in a…
