Category: Point to Point

Pennsylvania surveyor Willi Schmidt has written about my distaste for the phrase, "art of surveying." He was accurate in portraying my reaction to a term that…

At the outset, I will admit that I am not an expert in GPS. That said, I have a few questions for surveyors…

If they were to return to observe our routine procedures for a day, our predecessors of 30 years ago would not likely recognize…

Here is a pop quiz on your Y2K preparedness: Have you installed that new generator yet? How is your bottled water cache coming…

Much has been written about the advantages of Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) for professional services. The Brooks Act, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited…

Let me state for the record that I am, and have been for some time, on the fence with respect to whether a…

Uncalled-for monuments are the bane of retracement surveyors everywhere. "Who placed this here and what did they know that I don’t?" The fact…

In a fee dispute a few years ago, an Alabama appeals court ruled that the responsible surveyor had not exercised appropriate supervision during…

The debate rages on over whether to require continuing education for surveyors. Curiously, I have never heard anyone deriding continuing education itself. Perhaps…