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.

When everyone’s shouting over each other, shouting even louder doesn’t get you heard. The same is 100-percent true when it comes to producing great content to hook your ideal customer.

Engineers have to know a place and its environs intimately before planning or building anything. High-resolution aerial imagery makes their jobs easier than ever.

The goal of an organization should be to outlive its original purpose. But in doing so, it should evolve and embrace a new purpose and redouble its efforts to outlive that purpose in turn.

Data is exploding and there is no end in sight. This phenomenon is creating quite a challenge for businesses of all types, especially those who need to gain insights from the vast quantities of geospatial data being created by new, advanced high-resolution imaging technologies.

Where I have chosen to prepare the base plans, I feel that what I produce are the canvas upon which architects and engineers can practice their “art.”