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Tracking Signs to Success
A decades-old law requires U.S. states to regulate billboards along the nation’s highways. An Illinois engineering consulting firm recognized the challenge as an opportunity to use GIS and mobile mapping to create added business. The great American road trip begins in Illinois. The nation’s most famous highway, Route 66, originates in Chicago and travels southwest,...
Hydro
In our April issue we examine the history of research and development for hydrography, setting the stage for an enormous future for surveyors in this field. Bathymetry, Hydrography, and Marine SurveyingThese are all substantial segments of the surveying profession, and they’re where surveying extends its influence into such massive industries as marine construction, offshore energy and mining,...
Editor’s Desk: The Shape of Things to Come
Welcome to Outlook, an entirely new annual magazine. If you were expecting to see our former yearly supplement, Red Pages, prepare to have your expectations pleasantly surpassed. Red Pages has been an annual resource with two parts: a directory of companies and organizations contributing to surveying and related professions, and a series of articles with...
Beyond the Scope: Preparing for Your State Conference
A majority of the state society conferences take place in the first quarter of the year. They are educational and social events geared toward fellowship and knowledge for the members. The societies work long and hard to create enjoyable events and courses that will be valuable to the attendees. Great speakers are brought in from...
Where Theory Meets Practice: Transformations and Reference Frames, Part 1
A year ago I watched as a surveyor pulled out his GNSS receiver with a real-time network data link to perform a site survey for a local construction project. I took this opportunity to ask him if he could locate a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) reference monument. Because he also needed this monument, he...
Northern Lights: GeoEd
Present-day technology has the ability to facilitate so many things that it’s sometimes hard to comprehend how fast it moves along. This is one of the reasons that professional associations across Canada (and the globe) have started to move towards mandatory professional development, but the challenge they face today is how to provide learning opportunities...