All posts by Scott Martin
The “Ah Ha” Moments
I can’t speak about other professional career paths, but I can certainly attest to land surveying after more than 40 years of “practicing” the art and science. There truly has been an opportunity to learn something new almost every day of those 40-plus years (unless I interfered). From the fundamental basics like stocking the survey...
2019 Geospatial Summit
You Can’t Beat the Price of Admission As the march towards the new reference frame and datum rolls on approaching 2022, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) continues to ramp up its outreach efforts to get us users prepared with the 2019 Geospatial Summit. They have hosted prior geospatial summits in 2010, 2015, and 2017, all...
Field to Finish – The Career Continuum
First, I would like to thank Anthony Whitlock for his excellent contribution to Field Notes last month. It was thought-provoking and stimulated much conversation. It even motivated me to start doing research, specifically on the impacts, or perceived impacts, of the implementation of degree requirements (which are complex in many cases) to sit for state-specific...
NGS Webinar on State Plane Coord. System Update
NGS’s free webinar on the State Plane Coordinate System Update has been rescheduled after the Federal government shutdown. It now will take place on March 7, 2:00 pm EST. Leading it will be Michael Dennis, PE, LS, National Geodetic Survey. NGS will establish the State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 (SPCS2022) as part of modernizing the National Spatial...
You Make the Call
Even if you aren’t a football fan, or a sports fan in general, you likely still heard something about the very controversial “non-call” of a penalty in the recent NFC championship game between the New Orleans Saints and the Los Angeles Rams. It occurred in the last minutes of the game and very likely cost...
State Plane Coordinates 2022
Ready or not, here they come. Considering all of the outreach that the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has been doing for the last couple of years, hopefully most of you are well aware of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) Modernization Project. That project will result in the replacement of both the North American Datum...