Google Sketch Up

Google SketchUp Pro is a simple but powerful tool for exploring and presenting your ideas in 3D. SketchUp Pro is everything traditional CAD software isn't -- quick to learn and intuitive to use.

Create 3D Models
Using SketchUp Pro, you can create 3D m

Android/Iphone Apps for Surveyors

Try IP Webcam Compatible if the camera shows green screen or you have android version below 2.2.

Turns your phone into a network camera with multiple viewing options. View your camera on any platform with VLC player or web browser.

Works with third-par

Free and inexpensive Cogo Software

http://wareseeker.com/free-cogo/ 

Copan 09.11 brings users a professional yet easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane land survey coordinates. Designed for land surveyors, geodetic engineers, professionals and students

Guide to Finding Old Newspaper Articles Online

Land surveyors are (or should be) keen researchers and artists of meshing the past with the present.  Without a clear understanding of the past, how would we know what we are looking at?  Below is a helpful guide to finding archived newspaper artic

Automagically Backup Files with Dropbox

Did you know that you can automatically backup your files with Dropbox? (Get Dropbox for free here).  Below is a handy work around.

Using Dropbox for File Backup

Backup with Dropbox is effortless but one big limitation is that your files and folders ne

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

Calculate Sunlight and Preplan Your Surveying Day

SunCalc

SunCalc Lite is a little app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during the given day at the given location. It's a 10k version of the SunCalc project.

You can see sun positions at sunrise,specified time and sunset. The orange arc

Cell Tower Triangulation with Google Maps

Cell Tower Triangulation with Google Maps

Skyhook Coverage Map provides a location system based on Wi-Fi positioning, GPS and cell tower triangulation. It uses the hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi access points around the world to provide accurate loca

How to Extract Text from Images

At times a surveyor must do many types of investigation and reporting in order to get the results needed by a client.  Hopefully, this tool will both help with your level of creativity and go deeper with your investigative reporting.

i2OCR is a free

Real Time Collaboration,Conferencing,Chat and Sharing for Land Surveyors

Real Time Collaboration between Land Surveyors is Here!

By visiting this "room" on Vyew, you can share files, collaborate on projects and drawings and get your work done, together-in real time.

What is Vyew?

Do you use Google Chrome Browser?  If so,

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.

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101 Most Useful Websites on the Web

From our buddies over at Labnol (digital inspiration blog), I am passing on the 101 most useful websites on the web today.  These websites will make your surveying life easier.  Take a look!