Category Archives: Surveying
How to Win a Boundary Dispute Case
Legal Boundaries There are many players in a boundary dispute case, the judge, perhaps a jury, the parties, the attorneys, and maybe some witnesses. When a surveyor is hired as an expert in such a case, it is not the surveyor’s responsibility to win a boundary dispute case, but the surveyor can play a significant...
The Surveyor and the “Geodesy Crisis”
Surveyor’s Corner By Tim Burch To the average professional surveyor, the term “geodesy” does not exist in their everyday conversations about the business. While the use of state plane coordinates has expanded greatly with the development of GPS/GNSS receivers and RTK/RTN connectivity, the mathematics and “black magic” of geodesy remains an enigma to most of...
Beyond On-the-Job Training
By Tony Nettleman Throughout the history of land surveying, on-the-job training has been a significant portion of employee development. But is that enough? I agree with the premise that businesses must train their employees, and I encourage anyone reading this to act to ensure the future success of not only their own business but the...
Advancements in Parcel Mapping Tools- Part 2
Whether a parcel map is created for an engineering project, land development, valuation, tax assessment, land administration and management, for a subdivision, city, county, or whole country, the tools to create and manage them have dramatically improved. In the past, a key sticking point for surveyors was the lack of solid COGO tools within legacy...
What is an Accurate Survey?
The surveying profession has always been a measure-centric profession. What I mean by that is surveyors love their measurements, and that is where the primary focus of surveying practice has been concentrated from the very beginning. We have always been the expert measurers in the room. We can analyze our measurements, run closures, make adjustments,...
Winterizing
For surveyors, snow and cold can be a real impairment to field work. To some, who choose to bundle up and work through some snow squalls, it may not be as detrimental as rain for completing the field work, but it can still cause a lot of problems.
