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Todd Foster, Milestone Survey

21st Century Survey: Milestone Surveys’ Innovation Makes a Global Workstation

Milestone Surveys is a digital child of the current century: working in the cloud and across the globe while maintaining fundamental surveying practices. Extinction is certain for geospatial companies that plan to make a profit tomorrow the way they did yesterday. In order to survive and thrive in the 21st century, surveying businesses must blend...

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40 Under 40, 2017: Stuart Warnock

OWNER AND PRESIDENT OF PIONEER MAPPING TEXAS, USA STUART WARNOCK is a registered professional land surveyor and a GIS professional who is making his mark on the surveying community, professional associations, and education outreach for the professions.The name of his firm, Pioneer Mapping, is a nod to a broader view of the types of services...

GeoBusiness 2016 – London

Wow! Just, wow [ed. Translation to US-English “Wow!!”]. Last week I was at the UK Esri annual conference with 3000+ people crammed into the tight QEII conference centre. This still didn’t prepare me for GeoBusiness this year. It was the same venue as last year but somehow they’ve crammed in a few more stands, and...

xyHt Industry News Links: 4/29/16

Tallysman® Introduces High Performance Triple Band GNSS Antenna + L-Band Trimble Launches End-to-End Field Service Management Suite DJI Introduces Next-Generation Matrice 600 Aerial Platform NovAtel launches 40-centimeter correction service, TerraStar-L The Digit Group and CyberCity 3D Ink Development, Sales and Marketing Agreement Using Streaming 3D Maps for Smart Cities IoT Solutions MIT Develops Control Algorithm...

art of retracement

The Beaten Path

Art of Retracement With a set of eyes that had focused on survey lines through several eras, the Old Man (Glenny Dale, also known as Glutton), took one look at the cluster of three monuments along a right-of-way fence line. The site of three pins at a point where there could be only one legal...

Warren Ward places a prism on an old pin.

The Right Right

Igor Kidinsky thought about another career for a fleeting moment. His cold fingers struggled to fine-tune the total station. As an Afghanistan war veteran, he sometimes dreamt of spending his life closer to a beach rather than continue freezing in the mountains. He would leave his crew-name of Eager (the Kid) behind and put his...