About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
Category: Feature
Growing the Numbers
How geospatial technology boosts efforts to restore degraded land and create new forests
Imagine planting enough new trees to cover a plot of land the size of Switzerland. Now do it again and again, nearly 500…
Culver City: Previous Blast as a Catalyst for Change
How One Explosion Opened the Door for Surveyors in Underground Damage Prevention
On June 16, 1976, the community of Venice Boulevard in Culver City, California, was humming with construction for a street-widening project. But then,…
Don’t Regret, Hire a Vet
Rochester, N.Y. firm brings veteran-backed survey skills to Upstate and beyond
Although Dan MacDonald, P.L.S., is passionate about a lot of things—his family, the outdoors, surveying, and good food immediately come to mind—he is…
Ohio Department of Transportation RTN
From “The heart of it all” in the City of Columbus, the Ohio Department of Transportation has been pumping out a statewide RTN…
Breaking the Centimeter Barrier
How a Danish firm met sub-centimeter specifications of a major rail project with mobile mapping
The mobile mapping system, here mounted on the front of the rail maintenance lorry for this project, is a combination of dual high…
Getting Out with Surveying
“When I first started, I didn’t think it was going to last because the first time you go into a prison and the…
Recovering the Past to Improve the Future
The National Geodetic Survey defines the official geodetic datums for all federal mapping activities in the U.S. and its territories as part of…
Unsung Hero: The Michigan and Ohio State Line
The State line between Michigan and Ohio was created, on paper, with the signing of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Ordinance stated…
Surveyors Stay Open for Business During the Coronavirus Pandemic
From coast to coast, surveyors by and large have kept busy and operational while many other sectors of the American economy experienced a…