Category Archives: Surveying
Testifying as an Expert
Legal Boundaries A boundary dispute case, or any case involving surveying, surveyors, landowners, and property rights (“property disputes”) is a different breed of civil litigation from most others. There are many unique aspects of this type of litigation not common to other cases. The biggest difference is that the parties are paying for the litigation...
Why Opus Projects? Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2The new version of the NGS suite of Online Position User Service tools simplifies many tasks By Philippe HenselWith Dan Gillins, Dan Martin and Julie Prusky NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) continues to improve its suite of Online Position User Service (OPUS) tools. In addition to single-point processing, OPUS offers a web-based...
Carlson Releases STEM Video Game: Hydrology Engineer
Carlson Software, celebrating its 40th anniversary as a company, has released a STEM video game—Hydrology Engineer. The video game is designed to teach hydrology, a subset of civil engineering, from a practical standpoint. Players will be introduced to both simple and complex concepts of hydrology work with the chance to compete for most efficient design...
Surveyor’s Corner: Next Generation
Putting the Future of Surveying In the Next Generation’s Hands For more than 20 years, the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) has organized a student competition in conjunction with its spring business meetings in Washington, D.C. Now organized by the Young Surveyors Network (YSN) of the NSPS, the competition hosts higher-education land surveying student...
Low-Code/No-Code Mapping
Location-aware apps can now be created with almost no coding expertise. Is this the next frontier in mobile GIS? When authorities at the Ara Hīkoi Aotearoa, New Zealand’s Walking Access Commission, needed to revamp the country’s web-based maps, they knew that they had to build a handy and more user-friendly alternative for their hiking patrons. ...
Unwritten Rights
Legal Boundaries Misnomer or Misconception A misnomer is “a wrong name or inappropriate designation,” the “use of a wrong or inappropriate name.” (Webster’s) Otherwise stated, “a misnomer is a particular kind of mistake in labeling.” (Google) A misconception, on the other hand, is a “wrong or inaccurate idea or conception.” (Webster’s) Another way of phrasing...