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How to Download Any Surveying Book from Google Books

Have you ever wanted a text book or surveying related book you found on Google Books that you need, but couldn't afford? Well then you're in luck! Follow this simple tip hack and you can download any book you like from Google Books. You'll need fir

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

How to Quickly Solve Geometrical Shapes with Google Search

Solve Geometrical Shapes with Just Google Search

Here is a tip which could also easily fall into the Formulas that Work group for solving geometric shape equations using just Google Search. With google search you can solve for geometrical shapes suc

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Keep Notes On Google Maps With Notes.is

Field Notes Go Digital

Here is a new app for your online tools arsenal for keeping notes on the google maps interface. When i ran across this tool, i immediately could see how it could be valuable to land surveyors for taking notes related to proper

Started by Jaybird

1 Reply

Land Surveyor

How to Get Comprehensive Automated Free VoIP with Google Voice

Ok my fellow surveyors, do you want to learn how to make free VoiP calls over wifi connection? When times are tough, a little free advice never hurts. I am going to present this guide and continue to update it as I learn the limits and possibilities

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

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Survey Legend

How to Use Google+ Hangouts for Beginners

How to Start a Google+ Hangout

If you haven't at least played around with Google Hangouts inside Google+ then you simply do not know what you are missing. Its very similar to Skype except for you do not have to pay for it, you can have 30 or so peop

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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GEO Ambassador

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF on the Fly!

FaxTool is a portable freeware utility for splitting and joining (merging) TIFF and PDF files. Simply drag your files onto the interface to split or join.

It is a single EXE, and requires no ins

Started by Skip Farrow

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Land Surveyor

How to Convert Files Into Over 50 Formats

If you are like me, you are constant need of a way to convert documents and files from one file format into another. That is why this service I am about to introduce is so valuable. Introducing CometDocs!

Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

2 Replies

Survey Legend

How to Email Attachments Up to 10GB

Yes, you read that right, surveyors! Up to 10 GB. This means you can now email over those drawings, platts, large attachments using Google Drive and Gmail.

Here is how you email attachments up to 10 gigabytes in Size

Then just follow the promp

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Survey Legend

Use Your Old Smartphone to Make Free Calls

Just because your old smartphone isn't connected to a carrier, doesn't mean its dumb! Did you know that you can still make calls from your old smartphone even when it isn't shacked to a mobile phone carrier? Its true.

Make A Wifi Phone

So you bou

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

1 Reply

Survey Legend

Easy GIS Translator and Converter for Free

If you have been looking for a free way to convert and translate GIS data files into other formats, the following tool will be incredibly useful. Enter Easy Translator by FME for doing just that.

All these formats for source and output are suppor

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

1 Reply

Party Chief

Android Apps for Surveyors

I was browsing through AppBrain for some surveyor-related applications for Android devices and found quite a few worth sharing. This post will be the first in a series related to using your android phone to accomplish amazing things in the field.

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

A Geocoder and Coordinate Finder with Autosuggest

I whipped together this tool for geocoding and reverse geocoding specifically for Land Surveyors United members. Start typing a location and it will return the geographical coordinates with auto suggest feature.

Find the Geocoder Tool Here

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

A serverless, unblockable messaging system for Android

Take a look at this guys..Imagine a day, when Facebook, Twitter, Land Surveyors United or even internet and cellular communication is blocked in your country due to some reason. We have seen this happen. How do then people communicate and spread thei

Started by Jaybird

1 Reply

Party Chief

Map Non-Native Plants With Your Phone

Professional Land Surveyors run into all sorts of exotic plant life while at work. I say exotic because many of the plants that we see day-to-day have arrived to the location which they presently can be found due to human action, animal transportati

Started by Jaybird

0 Replies

Land Surveyor

Real Time WInd Map

I can think of many reasons why a land surveyor might want to take a look at a real-time wind map before starting a job involving skyscrapers or working near the water.

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the fir

Started by SurveyEarthinaDay

1 Reply

Party Chief

GeoRSS Reader for your Desktop

GeoFeeder is a simplistic GeoRSS viewer in Adobe AIR.

It focuses on the map (in all flavors: Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap …) and on the data. An advanced, html-capable tooltip window displays the feed-entries’ information. A

Started by Jaybird

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Survey Legend

Go Paperless! How to Digitally Sign Documents for Free

Land surveyors, of course, sign a LOT of documents. But solutions for digital signing of documents can be expensive and difficult to learn. So below I am going to show you a few free options for signing documents with your digital signature, without

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

Six Free Open Source Web Conferencing Tools

With all of the new excitement over broadcasting live presentations to the state boards and chapter meetings about LSU, I've been doing quite a bit of thinking and experimenting with ways to make face-to-face communication via webcams. And like you,

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Google Keep Keeps Your Notes On Google

Save What's On Your Mind, Anywhere

Land surveyors over time have devised some pretty innovative methods for storing and keeping notes, primarily because the job requires us to note practically everything. There is a new service from Google which you

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Surveyors, Need an Umbrella Today?

Would it be wise to bring an umbrella to work today, Surveyors? You can never be too prepared. Well, single-function website UmbrellaToday answers just that with one click. Simply input your zip code and get a simple yes or no weather forecast. It

Started by Jaybird

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Surveyors Online Toolbox

How to Start a Google+ Hangout

Faxtool Lets You Split and Merge TIFF and PDF on the Fly!

Here is how you email attachments up to 10 gigabytes in Size

Make A Wifi Phone

Save What's On Your Mind, Anywhere

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Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.

Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.