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Surveyors and Surveying: Fit for Purpose

“Fit for purpose” is a phrase I’m hearing about with increasing frequency. I’d strongly suggest that you, my fellow surveyors, begin to pay attention to it. Here’s why.In the May issue I wrote about a recent situation that occurred in Virginia where two counties had decided to define their common boundary through a “GIS map”...

Typical and low-distortion map projections.

Single Transformation with ECEF

We at xyHt think this topic is one surveyors should be talking about. Instead of placing this reader’s letter to us as a comment under Dr. Ghilani’s article (linked below), we are making it a post itself to encourage discussion underneath.  Editor Gavin Schrock, PLS, started us off, below.  Professor Ghiliani’s article, Transformation of Observations...

East Side Surprise Fense

Boundary Lines: When a Fence Appears in the Middle of your Street

In early July 2014, the residents at the end of Eastside Drive, a tranquil community of lakeside homeowners in Cobb County, Georgia, were perplexed to see workers installing a fence, ostensibly down the middle of their paved road. When the fence was completed, and where homeowners once enjoyed the ability to back up their vehicles...

Web Waypoints: Maps as Database Reports

An interactive exercise merging the topo-graphical and the topo-logical.At the conclusion of the first article in this series (April 2013, “Databased Mapping”), I provided a web link for readers to respond to a brief list of questions about software they’ve used for surveying-related mapping purposes. Surprisingly, there were a statistically significant number of responses. Well,...

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