Category Archives: Professional Surveyor Archives
Rules of the Game: Reading and Writing Legal Descriptions: A Survey and GIS Joint Perspective
By F. Peirce Eichelberger and J. Peter Borbas We developed a one-day GIS/survey workshop in 2013-2014 (a new URISA/GLIS workshop), and from that a half dozen topics arose of particular interest to both surveyors and GIS professionals[1]. One issue near the top was legal descriptions. With both surveyors and GIS/mapping staff intimately involved with legal...
Best Practices in Land Surveying: Creating Superior Land Description Plats
Part 2 By Landon Blake In the last Best Practices article (March 2014), we considered land description plats in general; here we address dealing with the challenge of covering a large or complex parcel on a small sheet size and establishing a visual hierarchy using only black and white ink. Let’s consider these suggestions as they...
Business Leader: SurveyorConnect.com
By Gavin Schrock, PLS Editor’s Note: This article is based on an interview with the talented and dedicated team who have grown a popular forum into an international online community—an invaluable amenity for the surveying profession. Visiting the SurveyorConnect online forum has the feel of a friend’s front porch, a place to have thoughtful conversations: open,...
Feature: Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker is arguably the most prominent figure in Baltimore area land survey history, and this biography details some of its highlights. By Eddie Glawe Early Life This dramatic story begins with Molly Welsh (may have been Walsh), Benjamin’s grandmother, a young servant or milk maid in England. As she was doing her work, a...
Feature: Survey <---> GIS
Finally you can work with survey data in a GIS environment and preserve its integrity and precision; check out the Carlson SurvPC Esri OEM. By Bruce Carlson and Gavin Schrock, PLS With apologies to Kipling: “GIS is GIS and surveying is surveying, and never the twain shall meet.” This is not really true … The...