In this special edition of Career Notes, POB looks back at some of the surveyors we’ve met and talks about their love of the profession.

Relationships are an important part of business. Sometimes the business is also an important part of a relationship.

Where we feel most of the big advances in technology have already occurred, we may become a little complacent. But Moore’s Law is marching on, even in some of the more mature technologies used in surveying.

Determining the extent and type of right conveyed or dedicated for railroad use is one of the thornier issues facing surveyors and land use professionals in the United States.

I have long held that the origins of a boundary dispute are misunderstood even by the participants. The cause of many disputes may be nothing more than territorial behavior.

Today, we’re going to look at what it really means to nurture a lead - to transform someone whose attention you’ve grabbed into an actual customer.

The survey party chief is the engineer’s on-the-scene reporter. They will spend a half-day to a month surveying a tract of land and gathering information to be used in the planning process.

I had an interesting conversation with Raymond Page, a Vermont LS, which touched on the question of whether surveying was art or science.

James C. Weed, PLS, has been an active member in the land surveying industry for over 21 years.

Present-day Keg Island exists in the Mississippi River where the river flows between the states of Iowa and Illinois. It is over a mile long, maybe a quarter of a mile wide at its widest point, consisting of about 128 acres – and it is uninhabited.