Land Surveyor Blogs

The following story is fictional and any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental.

Land Surveyor named Indiana Jones

One day I was sitting in my office in Downtown Houston around 5:00 pm in the afternoon in 2001 when the phone rang.  My secretary had already left and I was not anxious to answer it.  I had a comfortable practice running three field crews and another Professional Land Surveyor in the office.  I was daydreaming about maybe selling the business for a million dollars and jus

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

Free Datumate Live Webinar-DatuGram™3D Case Studies: Surveying & Mapping in the 21st Century Using Regular Cameras

Hi, this is Eric Colburn and for myself, Datumate and Colburn Strategic Partners I invite you to our next free Datumate Live Webinar on DatuGram™3D Case Studies: Please join us Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 2pm EST to learn about real-life case studies of surveying and mapping using digital images of a regular, inexpensive (but high-resolution) camera and the new, revolutionary Datu

Surveying with Cameras: Enhancing Occupational Safety of Field Crews

While surveying is often enjoyable and rewarding work, the conditions and sites where we do our land surveying work often are full of life-threatening hazards. Maintaining your safety or your field crew’s safety as they work in and along dangerous roads, on busy construction sites or at hazardous industrial facilities is paramount. Using conventional land surveying techniques and tools to ensure the occupational safety of field

Surveying with Small UAVs: A Paradigm Shift

Hi, this is Eric Colburn and for myself, Datumate and Colburn Strategic Partners I invite you to our next free Datumate Live Webinar on Surveying with Small UAVs: Please join us Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 2pm EDT to learn how using a small, camera equipped UAV and close-range photogrammetry software, like DatuGram™3D, will add to your business capabilities while improving your productivity and profits!

When: Thursday October 23, 2014 2:00pm (EDT)
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The Revolution of Surveying with Regular Cameras Webinar

Hi, this is Eric Colburn and for myself, Datumate and Colburn Strategic Partners I invite you to this free webinar on the Revolution of Surveying with Regular Cameras. The technology used to survey with a regular camera is sometimes called close-range photogrammetry or you may have heard it called terrestrial photogrammetry. Regardless of the name, this is mapping from digital photographs for the 21st century!

Many professional land surveyo

I recently added a new way for you to snapshot the location of your next jobsite inside the Mobile Rover, called Surveyor's Polaroid.  How this works is like this: Next time you are on a jobsite, fire up your mobile device and head to this page on the Mobile Rover.  Share your location (don't worry,it is not stored) and it will generate a simple Google Street View image of the geolocation you are presently at.

Below is a screencapture of where I was when I built and tested the app and is merely

Hey Everyone!

I am making some major upgrades to the communication channels here on Land Surveyors United, in preparation for the long awaited migration to the new platform.  We are almost there, just waiting on 2 final features to come out of sandbox and we'll be all be riding smoooth on the new framework.  One of the upgrades that I managed to actually get working over here on this old clunker, is a new version of the Surveyors Map (Global Member Map) which now opens in full screen, making it

So, one of our followers on Facebook posted the following antique surveying instrument to our page asking if anyone knew anything about it.  I thought it might be fun to ask the network if they knew anything about it, its history and who made it.  Please post anything you know about this instrument in the comments below and let's see who in the community is an instrument expert.

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Survey data Co-coordinate-point export Excel to AutoCAD  Download this Excel sheet Format and let me know what you think about it..

Ok guys...this is the moment of truth.  At Noon, where you are located, equipped with GPS/GNSS Equipment and having captured the data from your known point, here is where you log your data.  We look forward to your submission.  

Afterwards,please make the most of your submission by tweeting or sharing your participation using these five simple clicks...

Where will You Be on June 21 @Noon?

Survey Earth in a Day 3D is a global surveying event, which is open for any professional specializing in the use of survey grade GNSS equipment, and/or the analysis of the resultant data. Our only requirement is that measurements be made with survey grade GNSS equipment at noon on June 21. In order to give us a rough idea of where everyone will be making GNSS observations, first, double click and find the location where you will be gathering GNSS data from @n

HELPING FOR SURVEYORS IN US IAM DOING FROM INDIA

I just figured out a couple of cool things about the new toolbar on the site and wanted to share these tricks with you all. Of course, you can always simply click any of the apps in the tool bar to open them, but if you'd like to collaborate with other surveyors viewing the same page, here are a few tips on how to do so.

How to open the Surveyor Chat Room from the Address Bar

Surveyor Chat Room App is launchable chat room which takes advantage of our integrated member system. This Chat Room featur

If we cannot think outside our local environment, we become chained to it.  We are all chain-breaking for the Future on Land Surveyors United!

International Land Surveyors Week 2014 (June 15-22) is for Land Surveyors in any country on earth to celebrate the value of professional land surveyors in society. This is our 3rd year celebrating this week and it is slowly changing the industry into a more open and engagable situation for surveyors all around the world.  Have you recently noticed all of

Social Media Isn't Scary
But it is specific. Support is seriously social. The following tweet from our newest member today Zee Madlala  may turn out to be the doorway to success.  

Any Surveyors in Africa who want to help a motivated student and fellow surveyor out?

@LandSurveyorsU I am a final year land surveying student looking for African land surveyors to assist me with my research.

— Zee Madlala (@zeepolar) June 10, 2014

Measuring and drawing maps directly on images of regular camera

When:

Thursday June 5

2:00pm - 3:00pm (EDT)

11:00am - 12:00pm (PDT)

Where: Online Webinar (Register Here)

This webinar will introduce DatuGram™3D, Datumate’s new innovative software for making geodetic measurements and drawing maps directly on images taken by regular camera. This cutting-edge technology, used on a daily basis by numerous surveyors worldwide, simplifies the Field-to-Plan process, making it faster, more cost effective, and

Just something interesting that was shared with me on Twitter.

Be careful out there Surveyors!