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The earlier discussion:
Today I went to a Starbucks, got a co…
Official symbols according to the conventions of the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan appear with a circle below.
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Base triangulation survey…
It seems to be appropriate in our discussions of "What is Your Position" to write a "Brief History of Position Fixing". This is a very interesting subject (to me, at least) and I hope it will inspire…
Who Represents the Collective Voice of Surveyors in Your Area of the World?
Do you even know? Is that voice identifiable online? Is it something that you can say you belong to? Do you feel…
I am attaching the introduction from my soon to be published book:"Henry David Thoreau as a Surveyor -Myth versus Reality"INTRODUCTION"We falsely attribute to men a determined character; putting toget…
Hey Surveyors...are you using Google Talk for messaging and chat? If so, I bet you didn't know that you could chat with other surveyors in their native language by adding translation bots! …
The maps of the Classical Atlas have been scanned at a sufficient resolution to enable easy reading, but they may not display at an appropriate scale, depending on screen size, resolution, and window …
The rotational motion of the earth spinning on its axis provides two natural points, the poles, upon which to base coordinate systems. These systems are networks of intersecting lines (graticules) ins…