Those who started surveying before EDM, GPS, and one man survey crews are well aware of the martial legacy of our profession, made…
Category: Feature
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…
06.10.2024
Shooting Polaris Part 2
In a previous issue of American Surveyor (March-April, 2024) I stated the premise of the problem I wanted to solve…
06.10.2024
Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards
Accuracy assessments must take errors in ground control network into account
…surveyors using real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning are far too optimistic about their true accuracy…
03.24.2024
The Lost Railroad
When the mayor of New York City, in 1810, took a pencil and drew a proposed canal route on a piece of paper…
03.24.2024
Shooting Polaris
Surveyors’ equipment before the advent of GPS, went through the gamut of optical devices ranging from compass configurations to EDM and total stations…
