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Software Review: Info-Retriever 12
Info-Retriever 12 – Office Management Software by AGT If you have struggled to find a software package for your office that meets the unique needs of the surveying and engineering profession, Info-Retriever is worth a look. Since 1985, Advanced Graphics Technologies (AGT) has been writing this office management application that brings a collection of business tasks...
Guest Essay: Modifying Our Scope of Services
Eddie Glawe is a party chief and LSIT who recently sat for his principles and practices exam for licensure in Maryland. A multi-talented kind of guy (he has even dabbled in acting), Eddie is best known and respected as a diligent surveyor who doesn’t mince words in voicing his support for our profession to maintain...
Guest Essay: Change is Hard, But It’s Not the End
Chances are that students currently enrolled in surveying and geomatics programs are familiar with the writings of Dr. Charles Ghilani, author of such reference/textbooks as Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis and Elementary Surveying (An Introduction in Geomatics). Dr. Ghilani is a professor of engineering in the Surveying Engineering Program at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD...
Guest Essay: A Spatial Science
This young PhD candidate from “down under” offers his insights into the role of surveying in what he sees as a boom in “geospatial sciences.” Grant Hausler is completing his PhD at The University of Melbourne and Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI). His research explores technical, commercial, and governance issues affecting the development...
Guest Essay: Absolutely Exciting
If you ask Jeff Baldwin about the future of surveying, he will respond with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Licensed in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania and a licensed engineer in New Jersey to boot, Jeff has three decades of multi-disciplined experience in dealing with the sometimes-harsh realities of our profession, but that doesn’t stop him from looking...
xyHt News Links: 2/20/15
DAT/EM Summit Evolution compatible with Blue Marble’s Global Mapper NOAA study uses latest technology to compute updated Washington Monument height LizardTech Releases Updated GeoViewer for Windows Application FAA Proposes New Rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Bentley Systems Takes over Acute3D GISCI Announces Changes to the GISP Certification Process MAPPS Fall Conference to be held in...
