Nick Day is immediate past chair of the RICS California branch. He is a FRICS (Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), FRGS (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society) and PLS (Professional Licensed Surveyor in California). He is also a past chair of ASCE’s Geomatics Division, and author of the ASCE Pipeline Division’s manual on Route Location. He has been chief surveyor and chief route engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric Co, based in San Francisco, a project surveyor with Towill Inc., and recently retired from Caltrans (California Dept of Transportation), Oakland. Nick now travels widely and, for a hobby, writes regular columns for Geomatics World and GIS Professional.