As new methods of reality capture proliferate and produce massive volumes of detailed information, interoperability and standardization are key to realizing the full…
Volume 22 Issue 1
May 2025
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FEATURES
05.11.2025
How Survey Monuments Came to Be Considered Holy Relics
My survey career began in the metropolitan area of Denver, Co in 1971. The ALTA standards had been promulgated but were not yet…
05.11.2025
Public Works Pioneers Drones-as-a-Service Program for Salem, Oregon
River Road in Salem frequently experiences landslides due to hillside creep and cracks. Drone imagery processed in Site Scan for ArcGIS was used…
05.11.2025
What Technology Cannot Replace
Dennis Kemmesat of Frontier Precision Speaks to Surveyors
Employee-owned Frontier Precision was founded in Bismarck, ND in 1988, and has since expanded to South Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Hawaii,…
COLUMNS
Guest Editorial
05.11.2025
Making Do With Less?
Pundits have proclaimed for years that our society has peaked, and subsequent generations will have it harder than the one before. Everything is…
Bad Backsights
05.11.2025
Creation Myth
No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…
Everything Is Somewhere
05.11.2025
Pragmatic Mystic
Christopher Alexander’s Vision of a Living World
In 2005 I reviewed the first two books of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-book magnum opus, The Nature of Order in two columns—Life, the…
Vantage Point
05.11.2025
Bamboozled
There’s a new form of trespass in town, and it can stump the most diligent property owner. It can also stump surveyors trying…
Reconnaissance
05.11.2025
Thoughts on Licensure and Chesterton’s Fence
A recent article from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ webpage infrastructurereportcard.org provided numerous examples of an on-going effort across many of these…