Land Surveyor Blogs

CHAIN! The weakest link (in the chain)

by: Deward “Karl” Bowles,

Texas RPLS no. 4966

  Certain magazines (trade magazines) have purported to represent the current interests of our profession by exposing Land Surveyors to new technologies and philosophies regarding our industry.  These magazines have been around for decades in many cases.

   These so called trade magazines have treated us for years and years now to articles where the authors (pundits) of these articles chide us insisting that Land S

If Any One Can help me and send Casio Fx 5800 P Survey Programme

Introducing The United States of America Land Surveyors Support Groups

Its been a long and interesting process, but I finally managed to get all 50 state-based social support groups up for the United States of America. The idea here is to create a place for every surveyor in the United States (and eventually the globe) to go and have all of their state based information all in one place-including the most up to date documents and events from their state board. And because state board websites

Surveying

i am a surveyor ,i love survey because so many journeys......so many connections ...every day visiting new place,contacting new people,watching new culture..........etc....... ma ambition is improving my knowledge in diffrent type of  surveys and new technologies......i will do it frnds .i will do it.                           

THIS EVENT OCCURS AT YOUR LOCATION SO IF YOU PLAN TO SUBMIT A POINT, CLICK "GOING' here on the facebook event.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT FOR LAND SURVEYORS ONLY

YOU DON"T HAVE TO "GO" ANYWHERE, SIMPLY SUBMIT A POINT FROM YOUR CURRENT LOCATION


Reasons to Participate in #SEIAD6

-Collaborate as a global community to enhance the public perception of what a land surveyor does

-Commemorate International Surveyors Week
-Gather GPS data worldwide
-Continue to refine the models of the surface of the Earth

Some things relevant to land surveying change very quickly, such as technology, shortages in the workforce, etc..  We can look to blogs authored by land surveyors to help guide us through those changes. 

Here are the current Top 100 Land Surveying blogs based on Search Engine Ranking and Social Shares..

We are going into the New Year Strong with over 50,000 Land Surveyors following the @landsurveyorsunited page... our potential is limitless!!

You guys are AMAZING for sharing your surveying experiences and enthusiasm with your fellow surveyors and with the next generation. We are just a few sign ups away from reaching our 15,000 member goal on this official platform and everything just keeps getting better!

You may not realize it when you post a question or share a tip, but your advice and kn

It has been another great year spent with all of you..  2019 is sure to be our most exciting year yet as we will be finally migrating to our new and improved platform, we will be hosting Survey Earth in a Day twice per year (on both solstices) and we will be hosting a new podcast /interview platform for all of you to be involved with. we hope that you will invite your crew members and colleagues.

Dear Surveyor, 

As we steadily grow towards 15,000 members worldwide, as a community it is important for us all to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the community members.  With that said, we'd like to invite you to Share Your Story!   You can either post it by adding a new story post or email it to [email protected] and we will post it on your behalf.  No matter if you are a student of surveying looking for a mentor or a surveyor who has been in the field for years needi

Good news for all of you who are using a GNSS RTK without the fancy tilt meter and IMU onboard ! 

You can turn your today GNSS receiver to do the "free bubble style" by mixing up 2 technologies that popped up last year.

The first one is about software receiver as we learnt we can feed the digital signal processing part of a GNSS receiver into a smartphone and the second one is that we don't need to take the GNSS survey pole vertical !

My approach of this problem has been developed and tested alread

When I started my career, I have been attracted by one (of many) question : how accurate is the surface/volume calculations knowing the uncertainties of the points that define these geometrical figures. I really wanted to know in term of standard deviation what would be the "end results".

The solution was to propagate the variances (standard deviation squared) into the functional model (the mathematical formula in short) and to retrieve the results I was looking for.

By taking the formula to deter

Take Advantage of SECTION 179 TAX BENEFITS

Advanced Geodetic Surveys has put together a handy equipment cost calculator for you in order to help educate land surveyors on the tremendous savings that are available by purchasing equipment before December 31st.   

About Section 179 Tax Incentive

Section 179 is a tax incentive created by the U.S. Government to encourage businesses to purchase equipment. It gives businesses the opportunity to deduct the FULL purchase price of qualifying new/used e

A webinar recording of SmarterCAD capabilities

Tune into Today to America's Web Radio for a special NSPS Radio Hour with Executive Director of NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors, Curt Sumner with guest Justin Farrow, Creator of Land Surveyors United community.

TIME:

11AM EST

Visit link for live stream http://americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour/

We will be discussing the creation of Land Surveyors United and the past, present and future of land surveying communities online.

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