According to our own Dave Doyle, Professional Surveyor magazine is changing it's name and refocusing its content. Should be refreshing.
I saw that too...looking forward to the new format/direction.
Loyal
I got a call the other day wanting permission to use a project we worked on for that magazine.
Changing from "Professional Surveyor" to "coordinates".
Lets hope it is only irony and not a prophesy.
So the magazine is simply following the trend in the industry? :-S
"Pin Cushion Magazine"?? It sings!! 😛
> Changing from "Professional Surveyor" to "coordinates".
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> Lets hope it is only irony and not a prophesy.
I don't think it should be too much for a professional surveyor to be both an expert measurer and a boundary law authority. Besides, there is more to this business than boundary.
A "Coordinates" on-line journal already exists
There is already an on-line journal by that name. If you have not seen it, give it a look. It emphasizes positioning, navigation, geodesy, etc. and it is open access.
I guess they are not selling copies at the news stand, so it does not matter how stupid odd the name is.
Out of the many Civil Engineers I have talked with about surveying and the profession, all have thought POB was laughable as far as a professional representation of Land Surveyors and now our only publication representing us as professionals is jumping ship to the GIS/location market. It is sad day and further evidence our profession is at its end. I know I won't read the magazine again.
I think you'll all be presently surprised with the magazine.
"XYZ" journal is a quarterly of the Association Francaise de Topographie, and I have had a monthly subscription to "Coordinates" magazine from India for many years.
There is also koordinates.com - a great site for a whole pile of free GIS data.
I do think the xyHt name is daft
Quite obviously.
Nobody has suggested otherwise.
The rebranding of Professional Surveyor is in no way intended to abandon the world of the professional surveyor, quite the opposite. This is an effort to recognize the changing dynamics that virtually all in the professional currently do and certainly will face in the no so distant future. The magazine staff recognizes professional surveyors as the leaders in understanding how the puzzle of this country fits together. It also recognizes that the tools of precision measurement and positioning have been adapted to so many other disciplines that do not bring the professional knowledge about this puzzle that surveyors do. Regrettably, the name Professional Surveyor as a source for education and enlightenment of what I often call the great unwashed is a turn off - "I'm not a surveyors so what can this magazine offer me" is all too common a phrase. I believe that those surveyors would insist on looking at the world as thou it's the world of our grandfathers are destined to fade - Every day those who post on this board show the understanding of how the rapidly changing nature of technology is challenging some of the traditional practices many of us grew up with. The new format xyHt is a recognition of part of that tradition (coordinates as x and y - whether local or unified such as SPC) and H (Height) because of the nearly exclusive role that surveyors play ensuring that our national infrastructure is constructed to take advantage of where water (and other fluids) will flow. The one element that may be new and perhaps a little challenging to some is t - how these things change with time. Everything is in motion, our friends and colleagues on the West and Gulf coasts and Alaska are well acquainted with some of these issues. Increasing everyone will be faced with these issues. The staff at xyHt is hopeful and deeply committed to making this a platform for surveyors to share their knowledge and expertise and demonstrate the leadership in understanding the dynamics of what will surely drive the use of these technologies
POB did the same thing. :-X diversify that is .
Regrettably, the name Professional Surveyor as a source for education and enlightenment of what I often call the great unwashed is a turn off - "I'm not a surveyors so what can this magazine offer me"
:-S
Don
You dang kids with your newfangled coordinate-whatchamacallits and your Sputnik measurements and Golldurn Infobabble Systems keep it down in there, I'm trying to watch Matlock.
My print copy came today and read about that.
Should be good if Dave has his hands on it.
I have a question. He mentioned causes about land movements.
I understand all but "polar tides".
What is that?
Ice caps growing and shrinking?
> further evidence our profession is at its end.
Better watch your step. You'll be burned as a heretic!
[sarcasm]Our profession isn't ending. It's just changing. Into something entirely different.[/sarcasm]
