- Editor's Desk: GPS Is Everywhere by Tom Gibson, PE
- Letters to the Editor
- Out-of-Plumb by Chase Perryman
Giving surveyors something to laugh about!
- Feature: Ancient History Meets New Technology
Documenting Mayan ruins in Mexico with laser scanning.
- Feature: A Worthy Cause
A New Jersey surveyor spearheads a campaign to have magnetic locators donated for use in eliminating land mines.
- Feature: Over the Learning Curve
A growing network of base stations in California enables a firm to increase efficiency, once it masters the nuances of satellite machine control.
- Feature: Streamlining the Process
An aerial mapping and photogrammetry firm discovers that new GIS software allows for easier delivery of imagery.
- Feature: Surveying Goes Underground
Systems using ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction have evolved for locating underground utility lines.
- Software Review: Terrain Navigator Pro, Version 8 by James White, PLS
- Stories from the "E" File: The Good Samaritan by Stephen Estopinal, PE, PLS
E for Experience. One surveyor helping another troubleshoot a GPS system.
- Book Review: The E-Myth Revisited by Jeff Salmon, Editor
Our Business Angle author reviews a book that offers a perspective of small business success and failure.
- Around the Globe: Using GPS to Survey Bolivia
The author recounts his experiences in 1997 Bolivia.
- Beyond the Scope: Credit for Our Military Heroes by Bill Beardslee, PLS, PE, PP
A perspective on modern military service realities and surveyors.
- 3D Scanning: Laser Scanning the I-35W Bridge Collapse
Minnesota DOT's story.
- Northern Lights: Solving Property Line Problems the Quebec Way
- Intersect: Collaboration: Are you cashing or clashing with your GIS and surveying team members? by Janet Jackson, GISP and Randy Rambeau, Sr., PLS
2 Professionals; 2 Opinions; 2 Points of View.
- History Corner: The Squaring of Circleville, Ohio
Perhaps America's first attempt at urban redevelopment.
- GIS - The Greater Extent: A review of the book "GIS for Environmental Decision-Making" by Matteo Luccio, MS
- Second Thoughts: Thomas Holme, First Surveyor General of Pennsylania by Wilhelm A. Schmidt, PLS
- Rules of the Game: What is a Corner - Really? by Donald A. Wilson, LLS, PLS, RPF, Land Boundary Consultant
- Guest Editorial: DIRT: Report Underground Utility Damage
Report underground utility damage with this free online tool and help prevent it next time.
- The Next Generation: The Daily Problems of a Surveyor by Ashley Rose-Nalin
Meet Surveying's Future.
- Surveying the Capitol: 35 Years of Landsat by Laurence Socci
- Education in Surveying: Is the Bar Too High? by Robert J. Schultz, PE, PLS
- Aerial Perspective: More than an "Eye in the Sky"
- People, Products, Places