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xyHt Digital Magazine: November 2023

xyHt magazine’s November issue takes a look at what’s coming in the world of building information modeling. 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 here or on the cover to the right, to...

Interview with ChatGPT

Answers to Questions put to ChatGPT 3.5 Validating our Thought Experiment Premises  How do you convert an ArcGIS vector map to a Geodesic Planetary Model using a Quaternary Triangular Mesh (QTM)   ChatGPT:Converting an ArcGIS vector map to a Geodesic Planetary Model using a Quaternary Triangular Mesh (QTM) is a complex process that involves several steps....

Title Insurance and Boundary Surveys

Legal Boundaries What many surveyors might not know about title insurance and boundary surveys is they are intricately intertwined, due primarily to the unilateral efforts of the title companies issuing title insurance policies. Unilateral in the sense that the title company can issue a title policy with what is refers to as “survey coverage,” on...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/27/2023

NSPS and AAGS Scholarships Application Is Now Available  Geo Week Projects 200+ Top-Tier Exhibitors from Across the Globe  Bees360 Enhances Drone Airspace Management with Aloft  Leica Geosystems brings Leica BLK2GO PULSE to market for intuitive mobile laser scanning  Trimble Opens Labs at OSU to Advance Next Generation of Agriculture and Construction Talent  Hexagon’s Geosystems Division...

What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 2

The second installment of a three-part look at the inner workings of high-precision surveying rovers. In Part One of this series (xyHt magazine, September 2023 issue) we focused on the antenna, amplification, and housing elements of rovers. This installment continues with channels, boards, and gates.  Channels There is a lot of misunderstanding about what receiver...

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