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Volume 19 Issue 2
March 2022
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FEATURES
03.13.2022
Exploring the Mystery of Nantucket’s Meridian Stones
In 1840 the astronomer and surveyor William Mitchell erected two white marble obelisks on perpendicular sidewalks in the Town of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These…
03.13.2022
Ship Scanning Sets Sail
Engineering surveyor Danie Roelvert is a strong believer in one particular guiding principle: what is yours will come to you when it’s ready….
03.13.2022
Making Maps in Ireland
I joined Northern Irelands Ordnance Survey in 1966. Truly it was an organisation that hadn’t changed for more than one hundred years. Hardly…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
03.13.2022
From the Editor: The Value of History
As surveyors we know all about history and how that history affects a parcel of property. Without this knowledge we could not do…
Reconnaissance
03.13.2022
Reconnaissance: The State of the Surveying Profession, Part III
Featuring Jessica Hess, PS
Program Coordinator of the Surveying Technology Program at Vincennes University Jessica Hess, PS shares the same concerns I expressed in Parts I and…
Vantage Point
03.13.2022
Vantage Point: You Can’t Get There from Here
Over the past several years I’ve been on the sidelines of a sad affair about a landlocked property that has an access easement…
DEPARTMENTS
03.13.2022
GLO Record of the Week: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Historical Park
This week’s record is of the Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. This specific survey was accepted on Jan. 22, 2003, and depicts…
03.13.2022
Test Yourself 81: Half and Have
FPhrita wants to divide her property so that her sons, Phrank and Phred, each get an equal area and an equal perimeter. Find…