Land Surveyor Blogs

Hello!

I am interested in possibly starting up my own private land surveying business. I was just looking for some information and/or tips from some people that have done this and been through it themselves. With the amount of money needed to get into the business, i would hate to start off wrong. Some questions i would have are:

How much money would I be looking at to buy all the equipment and to get my business going?

How do I begin to determine what a person should charge when running a business

Modern day land surveyors are no strangers to devices which feature "bluetooth" capabilities and functions. In fact, there is a strong chance that you are either holding a bluetooth enabled device or sitting quite close to one. Nevertheless, most of us probably have no earthly idea where the odd word came from.  So, for my first post on this wonderful network, I'm going to tell you.

Bluetooth

The word "Bluetooth" might have sounded stupid or humorous the first time you heard it.  In fact, the

The Ally Oop

By Pean Cheneying, PLS

I received a phone call from Mr. Smith about a problem he was having with his neighbor Mr. Jones. They were in a boundary dispute over the location of a fence recently constructed by Mr. Jones. I warned him that if he hired me my opinion may not be in his favor. Mr. Smith signed the proposal so we began work on the project.

The project was in an area that I was very familiar with near the medical and museum district in the heart of the large city where I practi

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Mr.CAD^®Drafting & Design Tools

It is an integrated application for AutoCAD ® making it a powerful tool forSurveyors, Engineers and Architects. It contains facilities for the development of the construction plan from concept to the final plan.

Mr.CAD^® Professional Edition

It is a facilitating tool that lets you create construction documents in a simple and fast. It covers a wide range of disciplines in the plane, ranging from Civil Engineering to Architecture. It is a coordinated set of menus, icons

Mr.CAD^® Professional Edition...

Es una herramienta facilitadora que le permite crear los documentos de construcción de una forma simple y rápida. Cubre una amplia gama de disciplinas en el plano, que van desde la Ingeniería Civil hasta la Arquitectura. Es un juego coordinado de menús, iconos, rutinas, y programación que lo ayudarán a preparar su dibujo y agilizar su trabajo. Este contiene mecanismos para crear planos de Site, Mensura, Topografía, Grading, Sistemas de Alcantarillado Pluvial y Sani

Community Total Station and Equipment Manufacturer Questionaire

On the network today we are listing a new survey created by analysts at the Royal Bank of Scotland. RBS are interested in the community's views on which equipment manufacturers you use and like/don't like and why, as well as what the most important factors are when selecting a total station, in order to get a picture of the current competitive situation amongst the main players. All responses will be anonymous and anyone who partici

About GeoEye

GeoEye is a leading source of geospatial information and insight for decision makers and analysts who need a clear understanding of our changing world to protect lives, manage risk and optimize resources. Each day, organizations in defense and intelligence, public safety, critical infrastructure, energy and online media rely on GeoEye's imagery, tools and expertise to support important missions around the globe. Widely recognized as a pioneer in high-resolution satellite imagery, Geo

[updated July 16] Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 GPS Block IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIF-2, renamed Space Vehicle Number 63 (SVN-63), is functioning normally and ready to begin on-orbit maneuvers and operational testing.

After two postponements, the second  GPS Block IIF satellite launched successfully from Cape Canaveral at 2:41 a.m. EDT on July 16. GPS signals from the spacecraft payload will be turned on for test purposes in

Teamed with multiple trade professionals for more than 8 months intricately our surveyor’s laid out the path to completion. Watching the woods being parted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory certainly was poignant.  However, opening the provision of expanse provided Green energy and lighting for more than 4,000 Long Island homes. I considered it a true historic moment.  A huge under taking, we utilized our Trimble robotic total stations, GNSS and conventional tools to perform like a well oile

Chain!

We have heard many arguments from critics over the last few years berating professional land surveyors for not holding existing fences, improvements, or other evidence of possession on the ground as the boundary lines of real property. At the same time, other critics have called for holding, as the boundary corner, iron rods, pipes or other objects merely because they exist and were found somewhere near the alleged corner. They say that the mere existence of this evidence of possession, e

Land Surveying in Wisconsin

The Gap that Swallowed the Land Surveyor

By Pean Cheneying, PLS

A client who was a custom home builder ordered a Standard Survey (survey without the benefit of a title policy) on a parcel composed of a fractional lot in a recorded subdivision created in the 30s. This particular client had ordered some small subdivisions in the past but they were redeveloping this existing fractional lot and building an expensive custom home on it. Many of the parcels within this particular subdivision were bei

Searching google patents for "land surveying" can be an interesting adventure.  You'll find that there have been so many great ideas over the years by land surveyors hoping to change the way they work, get better results or just invent something the world has never seen before.  Below are a few of the more interesting land surveying related patents that I found.

Remote controlled land surveying assistance device for path response 

James B. Webb

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Staying On Top!

An extremely exciting announcement goes out today about the new way that activity and discussions on Land Surveyors United works.  When on the main page of the network, you will now see something somewhat similar to a feature we had in the past (which i had hacked to run inside the network for years hoping to encourage Ning to integrate) but today it works quite differently.  When you update your status from this box, you will instantly see your status posted in real time witho

Interesting article about GPS stations - CORS.

Even underground nuclear tests leave their mark on the part of the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere, the researchers discovered, when they examined GPS data recorded the same day as a North Korean nuclear test in 2009. Within minutes on that day, GPS stations in nearby countries registered a change in ionospheric electron density, as a bubble of disturbed particles spread out from the test site and across the planet.

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