All posts by Jeff Thoreson

xyHt Digital Magazine: September 2024

xyHt magazine’s September 2024  issue focuses on aerial surveying and mapping, with an in-depth look at a map maker who is not a surveyor. Will he change the industry? As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is...

The Still-Essential Skill of Cartography 

Looking Forward  When my kids were in high school, I made them learn to read a map. Their mother was incapable in this capacity, but still rode shotgun even though she had no ability to navigate us out of difficulty. When I got off course, I’d toss the map in the back seat and tell...

xyHt Digital Magazine: July/August 2024

xyHt magazine’s July/August 2024  issue focuses on surveying and mapping, with an in-depth look at a map maker of the future and a profile of up-and-coming Stonex. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital...

Looking Forward: Dealing with Water

Tragedy, in the form of natural disasters, typically involves the geospatial professions. As an industry we help plan for and react to floods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and other forms of Mother Nature’s will that wreak havoc on life in a particular place. Although often in a different role, we are called upon when manmade disasters...

Alcatraz from Above and Below

Looking Forward When xyHt author Juan B. Plaza phoned me and said he had access to information and data generated from a recent geospatial project on Alcatraz Island and that he wanted to provide the magazine with a story, I thought, well, that’s pretty cool. In our February issue this year I had written a...