All posts by Jeff Thoreson
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...
xyHt Digital Magazine: April 2024
xyHt magazine’s April 2024 issue focuses on land surveying by looking at changes above ground and an interesting survey below ground. 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 edition. Click here or on the...
Looking Forward: Underground Surveying
This month's issue features a story about underground surveying. Beneath parts of the Louisville, Kentucky is the Louisville Mega Cavern, an underground space of 100 acres created by years of mining rock.
