Imagine, if you will, the effort it takes to rebuild an entire community, literally from the ground up, after a catastrophic event, such…
Category: Feature
02.01.2026
Cautionary Tales of AI Use in Legal Research
Strategies for Minimizing Risks
Many surveyors love new tools and technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is one new technology that is being embraced by the profession. AI…
02.01.2026
The Rest of the Story Part 2
Loomis stated that Heidecke had introduced him to a number of residents of Detroit and that he obtained affidavits from L. Jacobs, the…
02.01.2026
What Would You Say…
It’s finally happening. After decades of hand-wringing and despair, the survey replacements are showing up. A new cadre of registered Land Surveyors are…
10.25.2025
Law. Land. Lines. Things Change: Roads and the Shifting Use Doctrine
What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at…
10.25.2025
Securing the Signals
How Trimble RTX-NMA Protects GNSS From Spoofing
Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a…
10.25.2025
AI at the Boundary
Using ChatGPT to Explore Survey-Related Law and Case Precedent
Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly…
10.25.2025
The Rest of the Story – Part 1
This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father…
10.25.2025
Mission: Possible
A Schoolkid, His Surveyor Dad, and a Full 3D Scan of a Lost Landmark
When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in…
10.25.2025
The Public Land Survey System Foundation Celebrates its 16th Anniversary
“Therefore, these organizations hereby create and institute a ‘Public Land Survey System Foundation’ (PLSSF) for the improvement of the surveying and mapping professions…
