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Business Leader: SurveyorConnect.com

By Gavin Schrock, PLS Editor’s Note: This article is based on an interview with the talented and dedicated team who have grown a popular forum into an international online community—an invaluable amenity for the surveying profession. Visiting the SurveyorConnect online forum has the feel of a friend’s front porch, a place to have thoughtful conversations: open,...

Feature: Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker is arguably the most prominent figure in Baltimore area land survey history, and this biography details some of its highlights. By Eddie Glawe Early Life This dramatic story begins with Molly Welsh (may have been Walsh), Benjamin’s grandmother, a young servant or milk maid in England. As she was doing her work, a...

Feature: Survey <---> GIS

Finally you can work with survey data in a GIS environment and preserve its integrity and precision; check out the Carlson SurvPC Esri OEM. By Bruce Carlson and Gavin Schrock, PLS With apologies to Kipling: “GIS is GIS and surveying is surveying, and never the twain shall meet.” This is not really true … The...

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