MAPPS honored members with the 2018 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards as part of their 12th annual awards banquet at the group's winter meeting in Denver in January.

While Point of Beginning has remained grounded in the land surveying and mapping fields, there has always been a need to look further into what has evolved as a range of geospatial professions.

It appears the aerial imagery segment is booming. The goal of more data and higher resolutions expressed in government and private sector programs suggests a strong, ongoing demand for geospatial services.

There is a long line of footsteps to follow to protect private property rights, personal wealth, and the health, safety, and well-being of those in the path of the project.

Laser scanning and imaging systems are rapidly making their way into every surveyor’s toolkit.

This year's annual POB Capital Investment Study of surveyors and geospatial professionals shows that, on average, spending levels have remained fairly consistent over the last three years.

Jeff Lucas, who writes the Traversing the Law column for POB, shared some information on a potential class action where surveys dutifully filed with a state authority were then provided to a technology company, apparently in their entirety.

While at InterGeo in October, POB had an opportunity to sit down with Mark Richter, director strategic marketing, Real Time Networks and Services Trimble Advance Positioning.

Dr. Norbert Lohl, UAV Dach e.V., opened the European Drone Summit by stating this was clearly the right time for such a summit, citing a recently published special report that, he said, "calls our time the Drone Age."