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The Path Forward: How Surveyors Can Defend Professional Standards
"If we donāt fight for licensure, weāll be fighting in court when someone builds a shopping mall inside your backyard."
Imagine stepping outside one morning, coffee in hand, ready to enjoy a quiet weekendāonly to find a construction crew staking out a new building where your backyard used to be. Confused, you pull out your property records, but the boundary lines donāt match whatās happening on the ground. After some digging, youā¦
"If we donāt fight for licensure, weāll be fighting in court when someone builds a shopping mall inside your backyard."
Imagine stepping outside one morning, coffee in hand, ready to enjoy a quiet weekendāonly to find a construction crew staking out a new building where your backyard used to be. Confused, you pull out your property records, but the boundary lines donāt match whatās happening on the ground. After some digging, youā¦
When Licensure Disappears, So Does Accuracy (And Public Trust)
"Imagine going to a doctor who learned surgery from TikTok. Thatās what unlicensed surveying looks like."
Think about the last time you had a medical check-up. Now imagine your doctor telling you, with a straight face, that he skipped medical school and learned everything he knows from YouTube tutorials. Would you trust him with your health? Probably not.
Now, take that same thought and apply it to land surveying. Would you trustā¦
"Imagine going to a doctor who learned surgery from TikTok. Thatās what unlicensed surveying looks like."
Think about the last time you had a medical check-up. Now imagine your doctor telling you, with a straight face, that he skipped medical school and learned everything he knows from YouTube tutorials. Would you trust him with your health? Probably not.
Now, take that same thought and apply it to land surveying. Would you trustā¦
"Ignorance is what causes this. Lack of education and too much TV and social media has turned the people of America into morons.Ā "
The Push to Kill Surveying Licensure: Whoās Behind It and Why
āDeregulation means anyone with a drone and a YouTube tutorial could call themselves a āsurveyor.ā Think about that.ā
Imagine a world where your profession no longer requires a license. No formal education. No testing. No accountability. Just a drone, an app, and a self-proclaimed "expert" ready to sell surveying services to unsuspecting clients. Sound ridiculous? Itās already happening.
The push to deregulate surveying licensureā¦
āDeregulation means anyone with a drone and a YouTube tutorial could call themselves a āsurveyor.ā Think about that.ā
Imagine a world where your profession no longer requires a license. No formal education. No testing. No accountability. Just a drone, an app, and a self-proclaimed "expert" ready to sell surveying services to unsuspecting clients. Sound ridiculous? Itās already happening.
The push to deregulate surveying licensureā¦
The Fight to Save NOAA: How Surveyors Can Advocate for Their Own Future
āThe good news: We can save NOAA. The bad news: We actually have to do something about it.ā
Surveyors, itās time for a reality check. The days of quietly going about your work, trusting that the infrastructure supporting your profession will always be there, are over. If NOAAās funding is slashed, surveying accuracy, professional credibility, and even public safety will take a direct hit.
And yet, many surveyors are stillā¦
āThe good news: We can save NOAA. The bad news: We actually have to do something about it.ā
Surveyors, itās time for a reality check. The days of quietly going about your work, trusting that the infrastructure supporting your profession will always be there, are over. If NOAAās funding is slashed, surveying accuracy, professional credibility, and even public safety will take a direct hit.
And yet, many surveyors are stillā¦
The Hype vs. Reality of AI in Surveying
The Hype vs. Reality of AI in Surveying: Why Tech Companies Keep Getting It WrongRead the next article in this series: How AI Will Change (Not Replace) the Surveying Profession"Can AI replace you? ...
The Hype vs. Reality of AI inā¦
The Myth of the Fully Automated Surveyor
Surveyors vs. The Algorithm: Who Controls the Future of Mapping?āLetting AI control surveying without oversight is like letting autocorrect write legal contracts. Itāll be fast. Itāll be efficient. A...
The Myth of the Fully Automatedā¦
Why NOAA Is The Most Important Agency Youāve Never Thought About
Why NOAA Is The Most Important Agency Youāve Never Thought AboutāImagine trying to survey without GPS. No, seriously. Think about that for a second.āSurveying without NOAA would be like navigating w...
Why NOAA Is The Mostā¦
What Happens to Surveying If NOAA Loses Funding?
āIf NOAA goes down, so does your accuracy. And probably your sanity.ā
Imagine waking up tomorrow to the news that NOAA has been defunded. Most Americans would skim past the headline, assuming itās just another bureaucratic reshuffling. But for surveyors, engineers, and geospatial professionals, it would signal the beginning of a logistical and economic nightmare.
Within days, your GPS accuracy would deteriorate, project delays would skyrocket,ā¦
āIf NOAA goes down, so does your accuracy. And probably your sanity.ā
Imagine waking up tomorrow to the news that NOAA has been defunded. Most Americans would skim past the headline, assuming itās just another bureaucratic reshuffling. But for surveyors, engineers, and geospatial professionals, it would signal the beginning of a logistical and economic nightmare.
Within days, your GPS accuracy would deteriorate, project delays would skyrocket,ā¦
https://pels.texas.gov/downloads/enf/da/2025/da-02-13-2025.pdfhttps... is the one that caught my eye.Xavier Chapa, R.P.L.S. #2568, Melissa, TX; Case Numbers Dā38458, D-38465, D-38505,and D-40400; SOAH Docket No. 460-24-05223Violation:For Case D-38458, Mr. Chapa failed to reference an existing physically monumented line fordirectional control and failed to tie the location of the subject parcel boundaries back toexisting deeds or records. Additionally, Mr.ā¦
Why NOAA Is The Most Important Agency Youāve Never Thought About
āImagine trying to survey without GPS. No, seriously. Think about that for a second.ā
Surveying without NOAA would be like navigating without a compass, designing a bridge without knowing the riverās depth, or, to put it bluntly, guessing instead of measuring. Yet, for most people, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) barely registers as more than just another government acronymāa quiet agency operating inā¦
āImagine trying to survey without GPS. No, seriously. Think about that for a second.ā
Surveying without NOAA would be like navigating without a compass, designing a bridge without knowing the riverās depth, or, to put it bluntly, guessing instead of measuring. Yet, for most people, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) barely registers as more than just another government acronymāa quiet agency operating inā¦
Surveyors vs. The Algorithm: Who Controls the Future of Mapping?
āLetting AI control surveying without oversight is like letting autocorrect write legal contracts. Itāll be fast. Itāll be efficient. And itāll be wrong.ā
In an era where automation is celebrated as the ultimate efficiency booster, algorithms increasingly shape how we measure, map, and perceive the world around us. Tech companies push AI-driven mapping as the future, offering promises of seamless accuracy, real-time updates, andā¦
āLetting AI control surveying without oversight is like letting autocorrect write legal contracts. Itāll be fast. Itāll be efficient. And itāll be wrong.ā
In an era where automation is celebrated as the ultimate efficiency booster, algorithms increasingly shape how we measure, map, and perceive the world around us. Tech companies push AI-driven mapping as the future, offering promises of seamless accuracy, real-time updates, andā¦
What an honor! The guys were joined this week by the one and only Kevin Pomfret. As a seasoned attorney based in Washington, D.C., Kevin specializes in navigating the legal and policy intricacies surrounding geospatial information and other types of data, from AI, data privacy, cybersecurity and intellectual property to national security. His focus is on the intersection of emerging technologies and law, particularly in areas like geospatial AI, space, Digital Twins and the evolvingā¦
