Got my Forestry Suppliers Catalog in the Mail today.

I like to think of myself as a Geo Special Professional.

I think you nailed something important with that post, Rankin.
Even though I'm not an outdoor professional these days, most of my career was spent outside and I was proud of it.
What the heck does "geospatial" even mean? It can't have anything to do with surveying, can it?

Don

Yall better have a fishing/hunting license then.....

> I think you nailed something important with that post, Rankin.
> Even though I'm not an outdoor professional these days, most of my career was spent outside and I was proud of it.
> What the heck does "geospatial" even mean? It can't have anything to do with surveying, can it?
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> Don

I have an employee who is attending surveying classes at a local college. He came in the other day and said the instructor said there is a push on to call surveyors "Geomaticians". I told him if he sticks with me, I will train him to be a "Geomagician".

Bruce

Damn academics always fugging around with our name etc.

Geez leave it alone.

Besides changing the name isn't going to do anything anyway because it is superficial. It isn't like the phone will start ringing off the hook the day I change my name in the Phone Book to Dave Karoly, Geomagicious Maticicious Professional the phone will start ringing off of the hook with prospective clients wanting to pay $1000/hour begging for my service.

Geo Washington and Abraham Lincoln were OK with Land Surveyor so it's good enough for me since that is what I do, Survey Land.

Forestry Suppliers is about 8 miles from my home. Great people to do business with.

As for Geowhatever, I am and shall remain the "vey man" as due to racial composition in my locale, some potential clients really don't want to call me "sir". I kid you not.

Every now and then I HAVE to go down to Forestry Suppliers and just walk through the place to see what all they have. It's just one of those very interesting places to just window shop. The sales people know the "oddities" that I am looking for and always steer me to something that I do not need, but that they know I will want. I mean, how many people keep a pocket stereoscope in their briefcase? Well, you NEVER know when you might need one, do you?

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> "Dear Outdoor Professional"-
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> more so than "Geospacial professional community"-
> which sounds like a colony of dweebs wearing button-down collared shirts, w' long sleeves and a pocket protector in each pocket....:-O

:good: :good:

I like just being a Land Surveyor. Fancy names and political correct doesn't much work for me. That geo spacial matician sh_t seems like an episode of queer eye for a straight guy.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, and a host of others were happy being called a Land Surveyor. I'm proud to share it with them.