Little by little I see optical tooling gizmos and field surveying gizmos converging. Sort of like the scanner sphere/retro reflector posting above .....

I agree they are meaningless. Years ago when I ran a mapping division, we used to refer to it as "so many units of paving the parking lot."

Number 2.Common in downtown business district, I think.

The elementary course in surveying I teach at LSU is the ONLY required course for Civil Engineering majors. I tell my students that we will cover Eng...

For that stupendous precision in coordinates, isn't the punch mark rather large? I mean where inside of that punch mark dimple is the actual location...

This past winter I was up in my attic and discovered my old hanging files of Quad maps. "Oh, that's what happened to them ..." They're still up ther...

Are these occasionally found as old monuments? If so, I'd guess mostly in cities?

Mr. Bilbo, a Louisiana Deputy Surveyor made a sketch in his field book showing himself sitting on a log with a jug nearby and a caption below read: "...

Years ago when I was selling my photogrammetric software world-wide, working copies of my "Demo" were free to any college or university that asked. S...

That's in lieu of you buying a performance bond. They are the ones that are going to get a construction loan and aren't looking forward to extra inte...

Double your price and tell her she gets 50% off if she lets you do the entire parcel.

What's up with the 2014 Date stamping?Why stamp that on a recovered old mark?

I went to the Savannah River Site two times, got the galloping willies both times. Supposedly was for giving advice on a terrestrial photogrammetry p...

I gave a 5-10 minute talk to one of my son's classes many years ago. After talking about mapping science, I passed out some out-of-date navigation ch...

Word of mouth. You have to get recommended by someone, usually. That's how it worked for me, anyway.

HP-41 SoftwareA Land Surveyor friend called a few weeks back with a geodetic problem concerning New Orleans District Corps of Engineers work. When he...

Usually I have found it pretty snappy. Could be something is happening that has not hit the news yet.

It is not as flexible as PROJ4, but is a LOT easier to use.