Land Surveyor Blogs

2017 has been an amazing year in the world of land surveying. Jaybird just finished compiling a report for the 2017 Annual Report for our Facebook Page and coming soon for the Surveying Jobs Page, Survey Earth in a Day and of course the entire community.  I just wanted to share this report and thank you all for your continued participation across platforms.  Together, we are truly making a difference in the surveying industry, despite the fact that the magazines and large media outlets are afrai

International Land Surveyors Week 2018 (June 17-23) is for Land Surveyors in any country on earth to celebrate the value of professional land surveyors in society.

This is our 4th year celebrating the surveying profession worldwide on this week and it is slowly changing the industry into a more open and connected situation for surveyors all around the world. Just ask yourself a couple of questions.  Have you recently noticed all of the surveying magazines and forum websites pushing the idea

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

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

A New Vendor Group Hub for Posting Deals, Special Promotions and Discounts has been added just for you!  Share Your Specials and We'll Share Your Post!

This new hub for vendors will allow you to run special promotions just for Land Surveyors United members.  Use this hub to post your specials and discounts by CREATING A NEW DISCUSSION inside this group.  The more information you include the higher your chance of having your post FEATURED and shared to other social media sites.

NOTE: We are beg

Most of the GNSS Network RTK projects have been developed by the economical justification that an active geodetic network would reduce the cost of maintaining a traditional geodetic network where the maintenance of the benchmarks and the control survey were a significant part of the ownerís budget.

A GNSS Network RTK can also be justified where there was no geodetic network to assist the creation and the maintenance of a Spatial Data Infrastructure to support land governance and cadastre operatio

Tired of trying to find a reliable company to order custom shirts, hats, safety vests and company gear? Here is Something New and Special for all of you Land Surveyors United members out there. We now have our own dedicated store for custom #surveyor swag! Thank you Patricks FL for all of your support on this! Visit this link to upload your logo and get a special discount for community members! They ship anywhere and turn around is quick!

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Hi Everyone,

For years, there has been a lot of talk about 2 looming problems in the surveying profession;  Age Gap and Knowledge Gap

What is being done about it? 

Although these are monumentally important discussion topics, we need to do something about it rather than just talking about it.  We must inspire new surveyors to enter the field.  We can do this by openly sharing experiences and telling a new generation about the excitement that can be found in surveying.   In just 3 weeks we will

As a global community with absolutely no budget, we have created quite a few milestones this year and that is all because of you and your undying commitment to your industry!  But don't take my word for it...check out our annual report!

A short video about our 2017 year together

2017 SURVEYOR COMMUNITY ANNUAL REPORT

This year we grew by over 3500 members, now well over 13,000 surveyors worldwide

Our Facebook page grew by over 6000 followers- now with over 47,000 followers!

Every single month

Over the years, we have tried to make note of important milestones and markers in our community development.  But as one surveyor who recently wrote in points out "It would be great if we could view all of the milestones at a glance."  Well, of course you could view them all inside the about page on our Facebook Page but if you are not on facebook this would be difficult.  So today I decided to collect them for us here on the network.

I would first like to say that I am so dang proud of this com

The new crowdsourced International Surveying Jobs Board is unlike any other jobs board you'll come across.  It regularly pulls in available jobs from other sites but it also allows members to post available jobs both on other sites as well as as a standard job posting, at no cost.

Two Ways to Add A Surveying Job to the Board

1)  Log in and Visit the Bookmarklet page and click/drag the bookmarklet into your browser's bookmark bar.  Then the next time you are visiting a link to a surveying job, s

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Here is a typical Surveyor's Report attached to many of the jobs that I do. This particular Land Survey was extremely complex and difficult but I thought you might get a kick out of seeing how this is done. The names and other information have been altered to protect the innocent.

SURVEYOR S REPORT

DISCUSSION

The parent tract of the subject tract was originally described by Deed to Weldon L. Wells August 31, 1955 recorded in Volume 3014, Page 724 of the Deed Records of Harris County, Texas. The sub

You may already be familiar with NeoRTK. However, if you are new to this name, NeoRTK GNSS Receiver is an all-in-one solution for survey. Working together with smart controllers, iHand20 or T17M, NeoRTK is ideal for application such as static data collection, CORS support, construction survey, staking-out, utilities, transportations and municipal facilities, etc. Download the brochure to get more details, click here. Learn more of NeoRTK, click here.

Our good friends at Superior Surveyor Services in Tampa are extending a terrific discount to Land Surveyors United Members for the month of April! 

Give them a call and tell them you are a member of Land Surveyors United to receive this amazing discount!

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GeoMap Society (GEMS) established in 1990 has been conducting programmes forcreating awareness about importance of Surveying & Mapping. 

On 10 April 2018, National Survey Day in India,seminar and Survey Quiz was held at JNT University Hyderabad. National Survey Day is celebrated every year in India to commemorate the measurement of the first Baseline of Great Trigonometric Survey (GTS) on 10^th April 1802 near Chennai, Tamilnadu

For more details, send email to Maj Siva Kiran, Secretary GEMS at 

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For those of you who do not know what Section 179 is, let me give you my simple definition:  Section 179 allows companies to deduct full purchase price of qualifying equipment or software that was financed or purchased during the tax year.  What this means in layman’s terms (which is the only way I know how to communicate effectively) is that if you bought, financed, or leased qualifying equipment in 2017, you are able to deduct the full purchase price from your gross inco