As a surveyor in Alaska there are tales of travails in the field which appear in many journals. The biggest was the boundary…
Category: Feature
02.08.2021
From a Pit to a Park
To create a sprawling 160-acre recreational site, Utah contractor’s impressive range of services draws heavily upon GNSS solutions.
Often derided as eyesores or environmental risks, areas such as capped landfills, depleted mines and spent gravel pits are finding new life as…
11.29.2020
Getting Off on the Wrong Foot
The long overdue sunset of an outdated conversion
Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT)…
11.29.2020
Waterways & Earth Days Part 1
About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
11.29.2020
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…
11.29.2020
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,…
09.27.2020
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…
09.27.2020
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…
09.27.2020
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…
09.27.2020
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…
