Roadmap to the Future

We are Reversing the Banner Ad Model

We have officially opened up the Land Surveyor Marketplace, a collection of Hubs owned, controlled and branded by Vendors inside the community who sell equipment,software and services.  If you would like to have your own Vendor hub, you must do 2 things:

 1) You must identify yourself as a Vendor by editing your profile and choosing Vendor as your member type.  Once you have done so, you should be able to see this page just for Vendors.

2) Request a Vendor Hub to be set up for your company

If you are tired of throwing your money away on banner ads or print advertising hoping for clicks or calls, this is the solution for you.  We'll set up your Hub, brand it according to your website or preferences and import your social media profiles for you.  All you need to do is be ready to learn something new, willing to answer questions about your products from customers and followers and share new deals and specials with the community a few times per month. Marketplace Hubs can also have a dedicated mobile app built for making shopping on the go much simpler for land surveyors in the field.  Contact Justin with any questions you might have about developing a mobile app for your business.

We are excited to add your company to our Marketplace and look forward to hearing from you!  Once your Vendor hub is set up we'll send you an email to follow the Hub.  We'll then make you admin of the hub and you'll be able to completely control the backend and all of the pages inside the hub.  Pretty cool huh!

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Request a Vendor Hub to be set up for your company

What are the three greatest challenges of managing and Land Surveyor Association or Organization?  Over the years, we have heard a lot but the most frequent problems ....

• Increasing Surveyor Turnout to Events
• Optimizing decision making and processes
• Getting new information from the board into the hand of members

Every single Land Surveying Association and/or Licensing Bureau can benefit from having a single place where all surveyors in a particular area can congregate and discuss topics and challenges at home.   Likewise, surveyors who are licensed and practice in more than one state can benefit from being involved in multiple State Hub Forums.

Benefits For the surveyor:

Having a dedicated forum for newer surveyors to communicate with those who have been in the field makes for more experienced surveyors overall.

Being able to check in to multiple State Hubs will keep those who are licenced

For the governing body:  

In addition to being able to control both Private and Public facing pages of your hub, Here are just a few of the features you will enjoy while managing your association through one of our dedicated hubs.

Chapter Specific Forums for All Chapters inside a state- Hub Controllers have the ability to add multiple forum pages to the hub through the dashboard, allowing each state chapter to have their own chapter specific forum. [Example of Chapter Forum]

President's Blog for Broadcasting to Entire State- Utilizing the Blog Feature in side the hub, Hub Controller can designate a Blog for the President or State Leader to keep in constant contact with surveyors of the state. [Example of President's Blog]

Live Streaming Chapter Meetings Using Google Hangouts API- State decisions should no longer be held up by lack of votes and low member turnout in meetings. You can now stream your chapter meetings live to your hub, increase turnout and cast/recieve votes in real time. [Example of Webinar]

Ability to add Chapter Meeting Minutes for Those who couldn't attend- In addition to live streaming participation, you can now blog live and or
embed the latest chapter meeting minutes to your hub, in minutes.

Pages Dedicated to Promoting surveying businesses in the state- The Blog Feature can also be used to easily add a directory to your Hub, showcasing outstanding surveyors in the state and helping them promote their businesses.

State specific events and conferences with RSVP- Promote your events and increase member turnout in the soon to be released Events feature for Hubs.

Embed digital publications and newsletters - You now have the ability to embed any document type directly into any hub page without having to wait on a web developer.  We will give you everything you need, including clear instructions on how to simply embed and archive your organization's publications.

Integrate all social media channels into pages, forums and blogs- With Hub Addons, we can import all of your other social media profiles and
acccounts to both increase engagement and keep all social media efforts in one central place.  Simply click the links in the subnavigation for the hub to see examples of how this all comes together. [Example of Youtube Imported Channel]

Photos page specific to Hub to allow members to upload photos from the field- No longer do you have to send out requests for photos. Your members can easily upload them directly into your hub for promotion of your state. [Example of State Surveyors Photos]

Below you will find some quick and easy links to the various state boards in each US state for professional land surveyors. Remember that  we also have dedicated support groups for all 50 states on Land Surveyors United so if you are a member who hasn't yet followed your State Hub, you might like to join the Hub for your particular state and connect with other surveyors near you.   But most importantly, if you are a representative of one of the state boards listed below, you might consider taking control of the Hub for your state which already has members in it.  We will help you get everything set up to mirror the information in your website and help you get your pages and forums set up.

Surveying State Boards for United States Quick Links

We are in the process of building something awesome for Land Surveying Companies inside the Directory, which will help increase the visibility of companies online and make it much easier to get the social recognition your company needs to climb the search engines.

We are starting with United States Surveying companies but will extend to other continents later in the year 2024. If you would like to have your company added to the new upcoming directory, start by visiting this hub and make a post about your company inside the state you reside.  This is the first step toward getting your company in the directory and when the directory launches (Feb/March) you'll have several high authority backlinks to your site which will help you climb above the competition in search.

Benefits of Adding Your Surveying Company to Our Global Directory

Every single month, the traffic to Land Surveyors United rises on an average of 22%.  We recieve approximately 77% of our traffic from search engines and 23% from referrals to our network and welcome on the average 10-12 new members per day.  This means that the majority of our visitors come by way of our search engine optimization.  With group forums for virtually every geographic area on the planet, associating your company website with the correct localized group, you'll receive more targeted traffic to your site and thus, found much easier in search engines.

You are building your reputation online with each and every piece of content that you add to the internet.  It's up to you how this reputation translates in search engines.  When you are helpful to your fellow surveyors, your reputation is built in a positive manner and thus, your online reach is increased.  When someone is looking for a land surveyor in thier local search engine, who do you think is the person they will choose to perform thier survey?  You.  Why?  Because you are certainly (and most importantly,demonstrably) a knowledgable professional associated with a professional organization like Land Surveyors United.

Other Benefits for Your Surveying Company:

• The only other site which offers a service of this type charges upwards of $90 per month to list your company.  Our directory is available for a minimum suggested donation to the network to help with maintenance and hosting and covers the ENTIRE YEAR!
• Your state or country page is geo-located to produce search results in your geographic area in local search engines.
• Tie your other social profiles to your listing for the most comprehensive method of contact for you or your company.
• Unlike many of our members-only pages and features on LSU, this directory is directed towards the public and getting you more business and online leads.
• Your company will benefit from our network's highly reputable online presence on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and many other areas of the social webscape, where surveyors can and should be found.

Land Surveyors United on Facebook - 59k+ Followers

Land Surveyors United Group - 39k+ Members

Land Surveyors Working Group- 900+ members

Surveying Jobs Group -15800+ Members

Survey Equipment Support Group - 7200 Members+

Linkedin Group for Surveyors - 11,800+ Members

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Welcome to the Future of Surveying Education

At Land Surveyors United, our mission is to create the most innovative and inclusive Continuing Education Program in the industry. Our goal is to uplift the entire surveying profession, ensuring that every surveyor has the opportunity to grow, contribute, and strengthen our collective future.

This roadmap serves as your guide to getting started with our Continuing Education Hub, outlining the steps for new members to join and participate in our Professional Development Hours (PDH) program. While this document provides a clear plan for the next six months, it’s important to note that it’s a living guide—one that will evolve as we gather feedback, encounter new challenges, and seize emerging opportunities.

We've Had it with irrelevant external advertising. Other sites use it to distract you from what you are trying to accomplish.  They pay big money to try to inject themselves into your life.  On top of that, irrelevant ads are intrusive, ugly and give outside parties too much information about what goes on inside YOUR community.  Therefore, beginning in 2024 and for the rest of time, advertising will only exist within this community inside Marketplace Hubs.  In order to replace our former means of financially supporting Land Surveyors United(ie External Advertising), beginning in January, the community will be powered and funded by member donations, micro-contributions and Marketplace hubs.  The only advertising that will be permitted is from within Marketplace Hubs and the vendors who sponsor them.

In other words, if you want to advertise your products and services on this site, we will be giving vendors and service providers MUCH MORE than any other website or community is providing for their advertising dollars.  For the same price you are paying for a simple little block of text or image on other sites, we are providing and entire miniature community to power your business.  For the same price you are paying to hope for clicks and conversions, we are providing a LIVING Advertisement...a Dynamic advertisement with its own URL.  

In the close to 17 years this community has been alive it has been growing-steadily, but aside from the occasional donation the financial burden has solely rested on the shoulders of Justin Farrow.  This must change in the year 2024.  Today with over 20k members, we have become a place where everyday land surveyors can openly communicate about anything, solve each other's problems, challenge one another to become better and leave behind a lasting impression for future generations of land surveyors.  Every single day, land surveyors seeking employment find jobs through this platform, sell equipment, troubleshoot software and find on demand surveying education, but the cost of all of this must now be passed on in part to the members in order to take it to the next level.

Looking for Volunteers to help with community day to day, operations.  If you are social media savvy and would like to help, take a look at the information in this module.  Thank you.

We are in search of a few internet savvy surveyors to help with the daily operations of maintaining the community.   At first this will be a voluntary position with social benefits but as we become more sustainable, we will be able to pay for your help.   The following are just a few of the tasks which need to happen every single day. 

If you believe you might be willing and able to help with any of these tasks please send a message to Justin.

Land Surveyors United exists to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet for professional land surveyors and students of geospatial sciences. We’ve been building this community for close to 15 years and the following 15 facts offer a look at who we are, including some of our biggest achievements and milestones.

But in many ways we’re just getting started, exploring new technology, entering new areas and reaching new users every day

Land Surveyors United Network was founded in 2007 by a father and son team with a simple premise: The best possible support for a surveyor having issues at work is another experienced surveyor. Sometimes it is the only solution available.  In order to socialize support for Land Surveyors, everyone at some point should contribute to the Global database of Professional Land Surveying best practices.  When you read or write an article, share a photo from the field or just share a video you made in the woods, on Survey Earth, you are tapping into a powerful and carefully moderated network of over 21000 surveyors. More than a few surveyors on the network -just like you- have written books, appeared on national television, are educators of geospatial sciences and have won many awards in their field. Their legacy will be present within these pages.  Those who pass on will still be our teachers, provided they take time to participate.

This entire network has always been a father and son operation. Now that the father has passed, the son carries the torch.  

Together, we crowdsource land surveying knowledge for the benefit of future generations.  We lift one another up and archive tips for surveyors of the future.  We catalogue everything which is great about the oldest and most noble profession known to man. 

Land Surveyors United hosts Group Hubs dedicated all of the countries of the world. Each hub has its own forum which needs an Ambassador (administrator)in charge of local outreach and sharing location specific surveying related resources. So...Would YOU like to be the leader of your local hub surveyor support hub? It should take less than 1 hour per week to fullfill this role.

With now over 20k+ members from all parts of the world, our community is growing at a fast rate and need your help with moderation of your local group on Land Surveyors United. You can see all of our location-based hubs YOU follow are listed here. If you do not see a group for your area, please indicate your location in the form below and a group will be created for you to moderate.

Moderation involves the following tasks and can be accomplished easily in your spare time:

1️⃣ Reporting /sharing Surveying News for your area inside your hubs community discussions

2️⃣ Inviting your local surveyors to the hub and building a micro-community of surveyors to strengthen the industry locally and globally

3️⃣ Sharing useful and educational links with your fellow surveyors in your geographic area

4️⃣ Adding local surveyor events and projects to your hub

5️⃣ Represent Land Surveyors United at your local surveyor events and conferences

🔥What You will Have that Regular Members Do Not

Your Own Back-office and Dashboard

Ability to add/remove pages to Hub

Ability to Import Entire Youtube and Vimeo Channels

Ability to Add Several Forums for Different Topics

Ability to Invite Local Surveyors to Submit Articles and Stories

Your name added to our Company Page and Organizational Structure

Benefits Are Growing Daily!

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We are committed to rolling out several new tools and resources for land surveyors every month. In this section you can see the upcoming tools as well as the tools already released. Each tool comes with a feedback form for submitting your suggestions for improvement. Through our collaboration, we can build the most useful tools available for land surveyors.

Jobs Toolkit Release Part One- October 3rd

This is the first phase of the Surveyor's Jobkit which includes

Resume Builder

Surveyor Resume Pool Uploader

Profile Embedder

the "Get a Job" Navigator

and our "Hire Me" badge which will surely catch the eye of employers.

Also we have released a new version of Land surveyor Radio which can now be found in the Surveyor's Podroom.

We are currently in the process of forming a 501(c)3 Non-Profit organization which should be in place by early february.

By 2020 we hope to completely remove all advertising from this community and we hope to do that through the pathways outlined on this page. We are of course always open to suggestions and ideas.

This is the last month that the community will be open for sign ups.   Beginning in January, all member profiles, forum, blogs and articles will be private and exclusive to Land Surveyors United members.

Two New Plans go into action beginning January 1st.

Member Dues and Donations become necessary for members.  You can donate here on the donations page or from the Member Dues section of your profile.   

Please note that the first couple of months will be on the honor system in order to help those in developing countries to generate funds.  

Also note that Retired Surveyors and Student Surveyors are always free.

If you would like to sponsor another member who cannot afford membership, there is an option for that inside the form.

Logged in members will find a tab tucked away that only you can see, which will allow any contribution you can afford to help towards the upkeep, maintenance and financial needs associated with keeping a community of this size and importance going into the future.

At the end of December we will have removed all of our external advertising and move to Paid Memberships at a cost of $1 per month per member or $10 for the year (save $2).  Retired Surveyors and Student Surveyors are always free.

By now we will have removed all of our external advertising and moved to Paid Memberships at a cost of $0.04 per day per member or $15 for the year.  Retired Surveyors and Student Surveyors are always free.

Our Marketplace hubs will all be paying Vendors by this time and we hope to begin our outreach for assembling our first Training Webinars.

We will begin our Training Webinars in March and will be hosting a variety of different types of training.   We will also begin our Surveying Company webinars for helping surveying companies rank higher in search.

National Surveyors Week 2020

By April we hope to be off to a great start with our new plan.   We will also begin preparing for Survey Earth in a Day 9 and International Surveyors Week 2020.

If we have raised enough funds by this time we will start our foundation which will send a surveying student to school.

May will be the last month that the Member Dues will be optional and on the honor system.