What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at…
Volume 22 Issue 3
October 2025
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FEATURES
10.25.2025
Securing the Signals
How Trimble RTX-NMA Protects GNSS From Spoofing
Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a…
10.25.2025
AI at the Boundary
Using ChatGPT to Explore Survey-Related Law and Case Precedent
Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly…
10.25.2025
The Rest of the Story – Part 1
This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father…
10.25.2025
Mission: Possible
A Schoolkid, His Surveyor Dad, and a Full 3D Scan of a Lost Landmark
When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in…
10.25.2025
The Public Land Survey System Foundation Celebrates its 16th Anniversary
“Therefore, these organizations hereby create and institute a ‘Public Land Survey System Foundation’ (PLSSF) for the improvement of the surveying and mapping professions…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
10.25.2025
The Age of Disbelief
We are entering into a time when we will have trouble believing our lying eyes. So far, AI appears to be mostly used…
Bad Backsights
10.25.2025
Bad Backsights: It’s Only Money
Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…
Vantage Point
10.25.2025
Vantage Point: Stepping Up to Fill the Gaps
This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…
DEPARTMENTS
10.25.2025
Book Reviews: The Dusty Bookshelf
Every point of the Earth is the center of its own horizon.” Roger Bacon, an early advocate of the scientific method, said that…