I taught a course in Geodetic Astronomy at the University of New Orleans in the early 1980s. I found the course and Lab pretty easy to conduct and st...

I ran an aerial photogrammetric mapping firm in the 1970s. We did dozens of aerial stockpile surveys of construction materials, wood chip (pulp) pile...

Full book on the entire world to be published in January:?ÿ Coordinate Systems of the World - Datums and Grids.?ÿ approx 1000 pages.?ÿ Taylor and Fran...

NAVD88 is still the legal datum in the USA and in Louisiana. Of course local "passive" benchmarks are moving, some faster than others dependent on a ...

Um, by the way ... WGS84 is NOT a projection. Not even close. Whopping difference. As Mr. Steven Estopinal likes to quote the late Will Rogers; "It...

Also checkout "GeoLab" - it's Canadian but used to be the Gold Standard before StarNet.

I recommend you pursue as much education as you can; that's one thing that will stay with you for the remainder of your life. Also, going for field e...

"the boundary line agreement procedure is a good example" of minimizing an Attorney's bill ... obviously a poor practice for an Attorney.

I researched this back in the early 1970's. The published research in Photogrammetric Engineering journal shows the industry standard of accuracy at ...

Good taste in the context of professional and proper. Not gaudy, nor sensational. Debatable to those that eschew advertisement for professional serv...

I see no problem for the Land Surveyors in this sort of situation. Just make sure your suit still fits, you have a clean dress shirt & tie, and u...

NGA gives actual examples of "Web Mercator" errors in EXCESS of 36 Kilometers. Google on: NGA.SIG.0011_1.0_WEBMERC and see for yourselves. This is w...

Check out X and Y labels. What's "Z?"

In 1985 I designed and supervised the benchmark densification programs in two Parishes (counties) in South Louisiana. New Class B benchmarks were pla...

As of two years ago, the maximum hourly rate for an Expert Witness to be paid by the U.S. Justice Department is $450/hour. I do not know if it has ch...