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Has Technology Made the Professional Surveyor Obsolete?

Editor’s note: The following article appeared in the September 2023 issue of PepTalks, published by the Mississippi Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers...

Tactile Maps

Most days, Ellen Zieleman and her guide dog, Sjef, make their rounds in Nijverdal, a village of 22,000 people in the Netherlands. A...

Supporting Public Schools in Planning for the Future

Running a school district of 220,000 students is a large and complicated job, but one that is made easier for Hillsborough County Public...

The U.S. Geodesy Crisis

Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the September 2023 of the Hydrographic Review Panel newsletter The current decline in the geodetic capacity in...

Ode to the Little Guy

Those who started surveying before EDM, GPS, and one man survey crews are well aware of the martial legacy of our profession, made...

Reconnaissance On The Border

In June of 2023, I began research for a lengthy, multi-part article dealing with the boundary line with our neighbors to the south,...

Tale of a Troubled Township

I’m sure many surveyors doing research have occasionally looked for one thing and ended up unexpectedly finding something else. About ten years ago,...

The Sun is Heating Up, But Stay Cool

By now, you’ve likely heard about Solar Cycle 25, the time when solar sunspot activity is highest—and GNSS signal reliability is at the...

Fulfilling a Long-Time Dream at the 5th Annual Women Surveyors Summit 2024

At the 5th Annual Women Surveyors Summit, I had the privilege of joining an incredible group of 126 women in the field, marking...

Ginsburg Versus Scalia

Ideological boundaries are nebulous compared with those land divisions precisely marked out by surveyors. Both types of divides were on display in a...

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Latest Issue

Volume 21 Issue 4 // October 2024

From the Editor

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

By the time you read this, the “most important election in the history of our country” will have occurred, and no matter which…

Bad Backsights

Bad Backsights: A Matter of Degrees

It seems like the fastest way to get into a vigorous debate, if not an outright argument, with your fellow surveyor is to…

Vantage Point

Vantage Point: FFRMS, Version 2024

FFRMS… It’s a mouthful of consonants but easier to say (or type) than “Federal Flood Risk Management Standard.” Having a broad-based FFRMS means…

Book Review

Book Review: The Measure of the Man

American surveyors are heirs to an enviable abundance of surveying history and lore that has accrued over the centuries of North America’s political…

FeedBack

FeedBack: Taming the Glorious AI

Your article in the July-August issue highlights well what has been & what we should expect to follow with AI, which I sarcastically…