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Tunnel Vision
Dis-located What do you think of all this new technology? Do you love it? Do you fear it? Does it keep advancing faster than you can keep up? In our industries, new technology usually means change. We will probably need to learn something new to make this new thing work. That’s a good thing, right? ...
xyHt June 2015
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Business Angle: Surveying Software (& Hardware) Purchase Decisions
Hardware and software purchases are two of the largest expenses, outside of personnel, for surveying professionals. There was a time when a surveyor could purchase a high-quality instrument and expect to use it for a decade or more. When I was first sent out to perform field surveys, I (as the new guy) got the...
xyHt News Links – 5/29/15
Juniper Systems to Carry Cedar Tree Android® Rugged Handhelds House lawmakers cut civil GPS funding across the board Adelos Unveils Distributed Acoustic Sensor Solution for Upstream Oil & Gas MAPPS Announces Summer Conference, July 12-15 in Sunriver, Oregon
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...
The Clock(s) at the Center of the Universe
To provide precise global time, critical to our digital world, the United States Naval Observatory serves as the major node in a worldwide array of synchronized atomic clocks. For all but a relatively few astronomers and scientists, the universe of humans centers around our earthbound activities and our heuristic sense of time – day, night, seasons,...
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