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xyHt news links: 3/13/15
Optech showing multiple hydrography solutions at U.S. Hydro Conference 2015 Spectra Precision Introduces FOCUS DL-15 Digital Level Improved Accuracy for Veripos Apex² PPP Service Revolutionize your stormwater system design with Carlson Precision 3D-Culverts Hydro 2015 Call for Papers The newest edition of InPosition is now available online PSLS Celebrates National Surveyors Week
Guest Essay: I Cannot Wait to Be Part of the Future
“As a surveyor in my forties, I must be ready for any future change,” says James Shaw Jr., president-elect of the Maryland Society of Surveyors and their Surveyor of the Year for 2012. James represents the new wave of leadership in the surveying profession: he’s experienced in core disciplines of cadastral, geodetic, and development surveying...
Transformation of Observations, Part 3
Above: Typical and low-distortion map projections. Using a Project Factor In Part 1 of this series of articles (September 2014 issue), I explained how to transform surface observations into a geocentric coordinate system so that it could be compared to GNSS baseline vectors. In Part 2 (December 2014) I explained how the creation of a...
xyHt News Links: 3/20/15
Blue Marble Releases GeoCalc SDK v7.1 with Tool for Creating Custom Geoid Models National Geographic’s Trails Illustrated Map Line Will Be Available on Avenza’s PDF Maps App The Land Around You
UAS Takes Autism to the Sky
A mapping project helps kids with autism by coaching them to build and fly a UAS (and make movies with it); the project also reveals sound business practices stemming from this new technology. What was it that got you into the surveying and mapping profession? Surveyors often state that it was an interest in math...
Editor’s Desk: Join Us!
I love the future. Here in my family room on a sunny Sunday afternoon, I am sitting and watching it in action. It’s called a Roomba, and it’s a robot vacuum that’s efficiently motoring back and forth around and under furniture, doing what my wife, kids, and I hate doing the most. “Larry,” as we...
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