> I maintain the four year degree has kept our competion, new surveyors, out of the way too effectively for our own good. There simply aren't enoug...
Well said! Curtis Brown had a better grasp on the professionalism of surveying some 50+ yrs ago than todays practioners. Yet here people are, 21st cen...
> "Surveying" is so diverse that I don't see how it can be categorized. Some things we do are like a trade, some are like a craft, some are like a...
> It's the art of surveying, the craft, the trade, that I like about surveying, and calling it a profession doesn't make it one.This points out exa...
Heh, does it really matter? In the public eye, GIS'er or surveyor, won't matter in Florida, they'll both be unregulated practices, and I'm pretty sure...
And it was an article that appeared in the Oct '10 issue of Professional Surveyor entitled "You won't like this" that got so many collective panties i...
I'm partial to MI's definition:(f) “Practice of professional surveying” means providing professional services such as consultation, investigation, tes...
ButchI know, I saw the fence wasn't even completed, and I got a little scared there, on how the boundary could actually be completed - whew! and here ...
One of those mysterious shifting property lines, brilliantly captured during conception! I mean, who is the surveyor to opine about encroachments? Cle...
KentThat definition as written is pretty piss-poor. I don't see how from as it is written that FEMA certs / elevs could definitively be excluded (if B...
Your damn right I am hung up on it> It is killing the profession. There is a reason that Florida and Texas, both states leading the demand for deg...
> My advice to all Florida "Surveyors" is to start thinking about moving to another State.good luck with that
> Physical evidence of occupation and control will mark the location of legal property lines.> Our job is not to perpetuate the written record b...
The definitive button pusher - just wants to measure things; doesn't care (or believes doesn't need to know) about prism constants, ppm correction, ea...
another GISP weighs in...the part about surveying instruments being unnecessarily complicated I found comical - but that is who we are up against
> People must not confuse the ends with the means. GIS is just a tool.Yup, just like machine grading right?> Surveying represents the in-depth ...
It's Validation...> (I think you'd be alarmed at the number of GISP certificate holders who have no degree or formal education in earth sciences.No...
surveying engineeringProbably better name would be geomatics engineering, course that would probably tick off surveyors too.Aims and ScopeThe Journal ...
> It's a trade mag. We don't have real professional journals. They publish articles without too much review and most of the articles are aimed to...
> Quite frankly, I have always ignored our state's notification clause. I can rarely tell in advance where I'm going to have to go to find evidence...