“All maps state an argument…” —J. B. Harley, 1989 There’s a popular poster of the world composed of satellite images, with continents arrayed…
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06.10.2023
Reaching Out
Using Technology and Outreach to Encourage Students to Join the Profession
Amidst a global effort to inspire the next generation of young professionals to become land surveyors, mappers, and geospatial experts, DRMP is doing…
06.10.2023
Carlson Software Part II: Competing as a Means of Contributing
Carlson Software has a Motto: “It’s Up to Us”
Part one of this interview with Bruce Carlson covered the early days, when he was just getting started in software and included stories…
06.10.2023
Cincinnati State Land Surveying Capstone 2022
In May 2021, the Land Surveying graduates at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College became the first students in school history to graduate…
06.10.2023
Where Are They Now?
The Penn State Surveying Programs 1989 – 2016
The authors catch up with the graduates of The Penn State Surveying Programs 1989 – 2016.
06.10.2023
A Story of a Stone
Not so long ago (relatively speaking), the stone’s lonely solitude within its submerged world was broken. For the first time in 75 years,…
04.16.2023
Carlson Software: Independence + Innovation – Part 1
Steady Wins the Race
Us pioneers who were surveying in the 80s recognized those years as a heady time even as they were happening, as EDMs and…
04.16.2023
Retracement Surveyor Beware
Fraudulent surveys may be anywhere
The recent article in the July/August issue of American Surveyor on the Benson Syndicate, taken from Wikipedia, was of genuine interest, since these…
04.16.2023
To Describe or Not to Describe
That Should Not Be the Question
This article addresses the need to prepare a new boundary description of a tract once the survey and plat of the tract is…
04.15.2023
Making a Run for It
Establishing benchmarks, perhaps one of the most valuable, yet understated, services a surveyor performs, is a practice dating back to the 19th century. Its…
