Blog
Heights 2025
Click on the cover to view the Heights 2025 supplement to xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include: Quantum Sensing: Profound change could be ahead for airborne reality capture and mapping, in the realm of quantum physics. Ready, Set, Modernize: ASPRS is preparing the geospatial industry for the modernized National Spatial Reference System. A Green Light for Shoreline Mapping:...
xyHt Digital Magazine: May/June 2025
xyHt magazine’s combined May and June issue focuses on aerial surveying and mapping and takes an in-depth look at topics from tropical glaciers to government advocacy. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click...
How to Win a Boundary Dispute Case
Legal Boundaries There are many players in a boundary dispute case, the judge, perhaps a jury, the parties, the attorneys, and maybe some witnesses. When a surveyor is hired as an expert in such a case, it is not the surveyor’s responsibility to win a boundary dispute case, but the surveyor can play a significant...
The Surveyor and the “Geodesy Crisis”
Surveyor’s Corner By Tim Burch To the average professional surveyor, the term “geodesy” does not exist in their everyday conversations about the business. While the use of state plane coordinates has expanded greatly with the development of GPS/GNSS receivers and RTK/RTN connectivity, the mathematics and “black magic” of geodesy remains an enigma to most of...
Beyond On-the-Job Training
By Tony Nettleman Throughout the history of land surveying, on-the-job training has been a significant portion of employee development. But is that enough? I agree with the premise that businesses must train their employees, and I encourage anyone reading this to act to ensure the future success of not only their own business but the...
Advancements in Parcel Mapping Tools- Part 2
Whether a parcel map is created for an engineering project, land development, valuation, tax assessment, land administration and management, for a subdivision, city, county, or whole country, the tools to create and manage them have dramatically improved. In the past, a key sticking point for surveyors was the lack of solid COGO tools within legacy...
Advertisement