The International LiDAR Mapping Forum is a technical conference and exhibition focused on data acquisition, fusion, processing and point clouds for the aerial surveying and mapping used to support transport, urban modeling, coastal zone mapping, utility asset management, and more.

On pirate maps, “X marks the spot.” When entering the main doors in most large malls across America, we find the information board with a map and key to help us locate a store. Our survey plans often have a location map. In parks there will be a placard with a big arrow that says “YOU ARE HERE.” These are all a necessity to find the place we seek.

Software package helps solve construction surveying problems.

No limits. Those words came to mind as I read “The Measure of Manhattan” by Marguerite Holloway.

 The book, published earlier this year by W.W. Norton and Company, tells the story of John Randel Jr., a surveyor, cartographer and inventor who plotted Manhattan’s city grid in the early 19th century. 

What legacy will I leave? That’s a question I’ve thought a lot about following trips to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle System International's (AUVSI's) Unmanned Systems conference in Washington and the Surveyors Rendezvous in Philadelphia.