New ALTA Survey Standards from ALTA/ACSM
December 20, 2010 No comments yet
The ALTA Survey Standards are being revised and will become effective February 23, 2011.
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“Survey Land Twice, Clear-Cut Once”
December 13, 2010 No comments yet
I read an article with the above title that reminded me of surveys I've been involved with over the years. In most cases the land owner hired a logging company to clear cut their property and the loggers got over the property line in their zeal to get the "big trees that were out there." [...]
What Is A Land Surveyor?
September 23, 2010 1 comment
A land surveyor is a professional person with the academic qualifications and technical expertise to measure and plot the lengths and directions of boundary lines and the dimensions of any portion of the earth’s surface (including natural and other structures.) That definition is quite a mouthful, but in actuality the field of surveying (geomatics) includes [...]
Basics of a Land Survey or Boundary Survey
September 17, 2010 1 comment
Land Surveying dates back to ancient history when the Egyptians surveyed agricultural sites along the Nile River. Surveying is used for multiple project types today. A land survey or boundary survey is done to establish a specific location of a parcel of land along with its exact acreage. It is used to ascertain boundaries for defining an [...]
Backpack Indoor Mapping at UC-Berkeley
August 12, 2010 No comments yet
Imagine the possibilities. What if Alice had one of these in Wonderland? Then she would have known where she had been. Still wouldn't have known where she was going. While we may be a few years away from seeing this in the mainstream, we're there already with the same concept on the back of a [...]
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