Online Only Articles 2013 Archives

FieldNotes: Arizona PLS Assoc. Conference Addresses GIS and Surveying Standards

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This entry is part 7 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

The Arizona Professional Land Surveyors’ Association held its annual state conference April 24-26 at the Prescott Resort in Prescott, Arizona. Attended by more than 200 surveyors and geospatial professionals, the conference featured national speaker Jeff Lucas on boundary disputes and pincushion problems, Warren Ward on the location of the Four Corners monument, and Michael Dennis […]

Pangaea: SPAR International 2013: An exciting year of industry insight

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This entry is part 8 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

Once again, the annual Spar International Conference, which was held at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs this year, lived up to all my expectations. Each year, I take a different person from my company, and each year, we both learn tons of new information. I say this every year, but if you are in the […]

Pangaea: The Next ‘X’: UX5 UAS

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This entry is part 9 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

Amid a flood of UAS news, Gatewing announces a noteworthy addition to their fleet. It almost seems as if there is a new Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)-related announcement every ten minutes. Trimble, that has already generated a lot of buzz over its Trimble Gatewing X100, announced a new entry to its product line on June […]

Headline: Accessible Mobile Mapping

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This entry is part 10 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

There is a “mapping gap” that has been a challenge to effective asset inventory and management; a new product from Trimble, the Trimble MX2 Mobile Spatial Imagining System (click here for the press release), is the type of solution that may help greatly in filling that gap. Mobile mapping can collect huge amounts of high-precision […]

FieldNotes: The Final Point

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This entry is part 11 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

I used to joke with my wife that when I died I wanted a geodetic marker set at my grave so that I could continue to be of service to my profession.  I reasoned that my friends would come to visit me, and it had the added benefit that I could keep an eye on […]

Davis-Bacon Misapplied

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This entry is part 12 of 15 in the series Online Only Articles 2013

The surveying community is facing the most serious threat to its professional image in decades. The U.S. Department of Labor—without consultation with the community, public notice, or opportunity for public comment—issued an order on March 22 declaring that members of survey crews are “laborers and mechanics” subject to the controversial Davis-Bacon Act. Since then, I’ve […]