Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT)…
Volume 17 Issue 7
November 2020
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FEATURES
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,…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
11.29.2020
A National Test
Different states license surveyors to provide different services relevant to each respective jurisdiction. Our common function in every state is focused on boundary…
Random Points
11.29.2020
Random Points: Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
The Business of Surveying
11.29.2020
The Business of Surveying: Is Your Survey Practice Planning for Success?
While surveyors are licensed by each state to protect public health, safety, and welfare, in order to be in business a private practice…
Vantage Point
11.29.2020
Vantage Point: No Way Out
The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…
Reconnaissance
11.29.2020
Reconnaissance: The Art of Retracement and the Surveyor’s Role
Traditionally, and almost universally, professional surveyors have been taught to survey the written title and to direct their client to seek the advice…
DEPARTMENTS
11.29.2020
GLO Record of the Week: William Henry Clark
Early Surveyor of the Dominguez-Escalante NCA
This GLO Record of the Week is about William Henry Clark (W.H. Clark), one of the first surveyors in what is now the…
11.29.2020
Decided Guidance: Hill v Richey
The 1952 Louisiana Supreme Court case of Hill v. Richey (59 So. 2d 434 221 La. 402) reinforces some elementary concepts but also…
11.29.2020
Test Yourself 73: Find The Areas
Find the areas of the parcels on each side of the roadway, excluding the roadway. For the solution to this problem (and much…