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#COVID_19 is hitting #Drones and #GIS businesses badly. Work From Home is not possible with desktop GIS/CAD applications.

Indshine Inc. is enabling "Work From Home" with its online GIS software designed for remote teams. Since business is a must, not an option, as a small contribution, Indshine is offering free access of 5GB on it's every account.

All you need to do is signup at app.indshine.com, share it with colleagues and start GIS digitization remotely with your teams.

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Survey Legend
With so much going on in the world right now regarding COVID-19, it is difficult to celebrate National Surveyors Week in the ways that are so needed.ย  The public needs education and awareness.ย  Surveyors need education and training and more importantly, each other.ย  In the United States, this week is undoubtedly National Surveyors Week, but it sure doesn't seem like it.ย  Let's see what we can do to turn this around for the better.
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In this excel file I have used some excel formula to draw the centerline chainage of an alignment in Road , Railway or tunnel project.

Here is the fileย Chainage Plotting.xlsx

The chainages will be drawn instantly with the help of excel and AutoCAD.

You can make your alignment chainage very accurately with the help of our Excel sheet without typeing a single one by yourself.

You just have to paste your coordinates into the given columns and you need to put the chainage interval in the respective colu

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Summary: Surveyors have been working with the elements of geometry, trigonometry, regression analysis, physics, engineering, metrology, programming languages, and the law. These work require software that offers unique strengths that will make data collection on land survey jobs easier and more efficient for land surveyors and other professionals.

Surveying has been an element in development since the beginning of recorded history. Most forms of construction require it. It is used in transport, c

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Survey Legend
As a community of land surveyors, we have a lot to be thankful for.ย  ย  Our Look Back at 2019 says a lot.ย  ย You will also find some cool tools on the Backsight 2019 page, including a brand new Member Heat Map/People Directory. Take a look at the presentation I put together for all of you.ย  ย This community and your membership means a lot to me.ย ย 
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GEO Ambassador
UPDATE:ย  You can now add any of our Surveyor App Suite apps to Chrome as Native Web apps.ย  ย Check out this video for how to add the apps to your Desktop using Chrome Browser.
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Multiple pages were filled with calculations and important drafting details in the architectural field. After CAD technology has been invented, Architectural CAD drafting technology has improved by leaps and bounds where bigger work systems replaced the smaller ones.ย 

The architecture, engineering and construction industry has a big influence from the digital drafting technology and has brought amazing results in the architectural drafting industry.ย  The constant demand in the architectural world

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Civil Engineering projects involving construction and architecture infrastructure, require state of the art technologies like civil3D, AutoDesk, AutoCAD, and Revit, etc. This software help produce detailed and high-quality outputs. To get land survey projects done, an engineer needs a team of professional drafters, who deliver detailed construction CAD drawings, topographical profiles, and any other specifications required.

Different kinds of land survey draftings are done to get a complete pictu

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UAV mapping technology is the best way to make full use of existing data and information resources. It is a key technology and an essential means to achieve sustainable development of marine resources and the environment. It plays a role in global change, resource surveys, environmental monitoring, and prediction. The irreplaceable role of technology. The results are mainly reflected in DOM, DLG, real-life three-dimensional and so on.

  1. UAVs do coastal monitoring

Utilizing remote sensing images of

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Did you know that Geospatial Data is all around us? Weather reports, suggested routes on Google Maps, Geotagged tweets, store locations, and even airline routes, all of these represent Geospatial data. Itโ€™s important to know that the term only entered literature during the late 1980s and has been rising since then. So, what exactly is Geospatial data & why is it making all the rounds?

ย Geospatial Data

Any records in a dataset have locational information tied to them such as geographic data in the

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Many land surveyors grew up in the profession and with the changing technology and advancement made in the GPS technology, the field time is reduced considerably, allowing the surveyors to collect the points faster. A typo survey that used to take a 3-man crew and a couple of days can now be performed by one person with an RTK GPS receiver in less than 8 hours.ย ย 

โ€œGIS Surveyorโ€ is one such application that can be used to make your survey faster, efficient and error-free. Here are some amazing thi

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Survey Legend
We've updated the directory of Land Surveyor Hubs inside the community. All community Hub have a dedicated Forum, Photos, Videos, Blogs and more. Asking questions or sharing tips inside a hub is a more targeted way of receiving feedback and finding help....or sharing your tips and tricks with the community.
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Introducing The United States of America Land Surveyors Support Groups

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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

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Survey Legend
Our Worldwide Virtual Surveyor Conference is already half way finished and Tomorrow (Thurday) will be South American Land Surveyors Day and the 5th day of International Surveyors Week 2019.ย  ย Please use the app to share photos and videos of Land Surveying in South American countries inside your Local Chapter Hubs. Friday is Survey Earth in a Day 8
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