Two apprentices were sent to measure a flag pole, and after trying to measure with tape, which bent and fell, trying to climb and sliding down and measuring the shadow but not knowing what to do with it, a salty old party chief noticed their dilema and ask what their problem was. The said they need to find out how high the pole was, the Chief grunted and retrieved a wrench from his truck, unbolted the pole, laid it down and measured it, 45 feet he exclaimed, and walked away, The two apprentices

Map_Projections.xls

March2015.pdf

Please have a look at the attached Newsletter. You can also download a free demo from www.ceaser.co.za.

CEASER stands for Civil Engineering And Surveying Earthworks Routines!

Register, Learn and Earn 10% Towards LSU

Land Surveyors United is an awesome community, and I'm pleased to be able to give back to LSU with your help. Colburn Strategic Partners will donate 10% of every Geov8 Virtual Expo registration to LSU using this link, Click Here.

About Geov8

Geov8 2015 Virtual Expo is an online virtual geo+innovation event showcasing new and innovative geospatial technologies. Industry leaders and experts in geospatial tech will present cutting edge information and turnkey s

Hello,

I am Azman Arefeen, a Permanent Resident of Australia. Recently, I completed my Certificate 3 in Surveying and Spatial Information Services from TAFE Ultimo. I am looking for an Apprenticeship/ Traineeship while I do my Diploma. If someone can help me, it would really mean a lot for me.

Now that I am a retired surveyor I may spend more time thinking about my garden than thinking about surveying.  But I still find some topics interesting.  You may see a response from me once in a while if I think there is something I can add.  Mostly I will lurk because I do not ponder new technology.  New technology is for those who are still trying to scratch a living out of the dirt.

Hi All

There is a major upgrade on the Mobile Surveying Program for Windows Mobile Handheld Units, which can be downloaded for free at www.ceaser.co.za.

Regards

Michael

UPDATE:  Please Share with Your Fellow ‪#‎Surveyors‬ 
SURVEY EARTH IN A DAY 5 RSVP here:https://www.facebook.com/events/782567225208901/
June 21st @ Noon
Set Up GPS on Known Point
Submit location data
Help remeasure entire
surface of Earth
in a single day
‪#‎SEIAD5‬
surveyearth.com

Honored to see Survey Earth in a Day 4D featured this week on GPS World Magazine cover!

Things are starting to ramp up with less than 20 days to go until the big event!

If you haven't yet RSVPed to take part in

Here are a couple of articles published today that may be of interest and I encourage you to share links that you have stumbled across in the comments below.

Land Surveying Transforms Along with Technology

And other interesting state-of-tech article:

PrecisionHawk raises $10M for its land-surveying drones

As the largest community body of land surveyors anywhere in the world with close to 9000 members, we have a responsibility. We must do all that we can to educate the public regarding our importance to society in order to pave the way for those who come after us.  One way to accomplish this would be for each of us to record a short PSA sharing the nature of surveying jobs in the places where we live.  

For Example, this PSA was submitted by Kennedy Komla of Ghana

For those who do not know,  PS

Click the link to read about the efforts of my company to handle an intricate survey in a delicate environment.

Surveying in an Inhospitable Environment: Grassy Lake, Arkansas

The text from the link is as follows:

Chartered Surveyors - putting out the good word..

Here we are busy giving training on CEASER and the use of UAV's for Aerial Surveys, which was very successful.

For a free demo of the CEASER program visit www.ceaser.co.za. All processing of the Aerial data is done by using Photoscan from Agisoft.

CEASER Fieldnotes

See attached. Visit our site at www.ceaser.co.za.

Thanks Michael

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!

UPDATE:  NOW You can RSVP for International Surveyors Week 2015

Check out Importance of Community

by Justin Bradley Farrow at Mode

International Land Surveyors Week 2015 (June 14-21) 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 changi

I was checking out Vine earlier today thinking of a few ways to integrate social media outside of Land Surveyors United into the day and found some pretty cool short videos of land surveyors doing what they do best and figured I would try to embed a few as a test in the site.  Turn the sound on to hear what they are saying in each.

Gotta Love Mosquitos at Work

Topo in the Park Baby!

3 Man Crew Day... I'm Sleepin'

Illegals Crossing the border

What He

Surveyor calc 

I am a surveyor and I spent a lot of time to do surveys with my dad. Then I asked myself, why not speed things up? we have many daily electronic tools, why not use them?

That's why I decided to develop Surveyor calc.

Surveyor calc is an application designed to perform the max speed and productivity in the field of

survey.

It allows to calculate areas of a survey but also to create automatically a digital figure of the survey

to open in a CAD software.

Why this is a very useful app? This