WEATHER GUARD Boosts Value of Flagship Saddle Boxes - March 10, 2010 WEATHER GUARD is enhancing three more of its flagship saddle boxes with new attachment points for increased security and improved organization capacity.
Intergraph Introduces Enhanced Map Publishing Solution - March 9, 2010 Intergraph has introduced a newly enhanced geospatial solution to enable the efficient production of high-quality map products by U.S. state departments of transportation and military and national mapping agencies around the world.
Applanix Introduces Shoreline Mapping Solution - March 9, 2010 LANDMark Marine enables the creation of seamless models of near shore environments by providing a highly accurate georeferenced point cloud which integrates with equivalent multibeam sonar data.
I would love to go into the politics of the health care legislation that the House passed by such a narrow margin, but I’ll refrain. Instead, I want to focus on what this new legislation means for those in the surveying, mapping and related professions.
by Christine L. Grahl | March 22, 2010 | Comments (0)
I can say one positive thing about this recession: It definitely has us relearning the value of money. As my partner and I recently reviewed some accounts payable, we were astounded to find that we were being charged for all sorts of things we didn’t order or didn’t expect.
by Harry O.Ward, PE | February 23, 2010 | Comments (0)
The emerging trend of cloud computing can deliver both SaaS (software as a service) and HaaS (hardware as a service) to consumers who can realize a benefit from shifting their capital expenditure into an operational expenditure. Is your company ready to relinquish your systems and IT infrastructure to an application service provider?
by DarronPustam, MBA, GISP | February 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
Why might a surveyor be in a quandary when confronted by a potential client? Let's listen in on some of the statements so often heard from likely clients.
by Maurice L.Schumann | February 23, 2010 | Comments (2)
Ashtech Introduces New MobileMapper Software
The new suite will first be introduced on the MobileMapper 6 professional GPS/GIS handheld receiver but over time it will be rolled out to the entire line of Ashtech MobileMapper GPS/GIS receivers.
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The grand prize winner of POB's fifth annual project contest is the USKH survey department in Anchorage, Alaska, for its survey of airport and hovercraft landing sites on Akun Island. The winning project is featured in POB's October print and digital issues and on POB online. POB will open its sixth annual contest in the spring.
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Early detection makes a difference One morning, as land surveyor Ricky Sears,
51, of Milton, Fla., was getting ready for
work,
he noticed a tiny black spot on
his stomach. Because of his involvement with the Pace Relay for Life for
the previous two years, he couldn't help
but wonder if this was one of those moles that can cause cancer.
Pilot safe following rural crash A land surveyor's single-engine Cessna 180 crashes and flips next to Highway 4 in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews, Winnipeg, Canada.
Vietnam’s Land Law Raises Status, Income and Security for Wives A Vietnamese woman watches a surveyor set up his tripod and instruments under a hot tropical sun to measure plots of land in her village. She isn't sure what the surveyors are doing, but her neighbour said it was to measure her plot so that one day she would get a red book from the government with her name on it as the joint owner of the land and house. It was something no woman in her family had ever possessed.
Web Exclusive: DO or Die A Slow Death The good old days are gone when you could win work based on your reputation, a wink, a smile and a handshake. Old methods of finding and doing business won’t deliver even average results now. ...
by GeorgeHedley
Safe Passage For mountain bikers and excitement junkies, the journey between the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and the Amazonian Basin is an opportunity for an adrenalin-pumping adventure. And rightly so. ...
Surveying with Construction Applications, Seventh Edition covers the latest advances and foundational principles of surveying. Emphasizing instrumentation technology, field data capture, and data-processing techniques, this text highlights real-world applications of surveying to the construction and engineering fields. Additional complexities in electronic distance measurement and the order of presentation of surveying topics have been revised in this edition. All state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the U.S. and the provincial Transportation/Highways Departments in Canada conduct extensive training sessions for their large staffs. This book covers topics that are taught in these training sessions, in addition to all of the introductory topics needed for survey training.
Traversing the Law: The Alabama rule. Last month, I addressed the proposition put forth by others that Alabama case law in some way justifies and makes relevant a federal surveying manual--a manual written for BLM employees surveying the undisposed-of lands of the federal government--in the context of private-practice surveying of lands that have been conveyed out of federal ownership and into private hands.
by Jeffery N.Lucas, PLS, Esq.
Surveying GIS: Recording land surveys Canadian style. In
2009, we examined how electronic plat filing works in Australia. As I
was doing some follow-up work on that series, I discovered that similar systems
are employed by a near neighbor of the United
States: Canada. ...
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Learn a new joke to share with your colleagues, test your knowledge with a survey problem, and we even give you a link to a cool new website to check out. Updated weekly!
Convenient and reasonably priced, Auburn University’s video, DVD, and web-based courses are a great resource for you to earn your state’s required continuing education credits.
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