Tag Archives: surveying

The Complex Issue of AI and GIS

Part 1 We attended remotely the ESRI User’s Conference (UC) held in San Diego on July 10th and, for the first time, saw and heard how the leading commercial GIS software company in the world positioned itself for the use of AI in its products. It is reasonable to assume that AI can make GIS...

Virtual Reality and City Planning

Engaging citizens to participate actively in urban development projects can often be difficult. But rendering designs in 3D city models and transforming them into immersive virtual reality spaces might just do the trick. When it comes to reshaping cities and constructing new structures, modern architects consider public participation an essential part of creating sustainable and...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/06/2023

  Topcon expands construction layout portfolio with LN-50  Cadcorp launches new EPC Data Service  New Davis-Bacon Act Rules Go Into Effect Oct. 23  Esri and NSPS | Surveyors and GIS Webinar Series  German campaign aims to get youngsters excited about mapping and surveying  Drones Receive EASA’s C6 Certificate for BVLOS Flights in the European Union ...

xyHt Digital Magazine: October 2023

xyHt magazine’s October issue goes inside the GNSS rover to see exactly what’s in it and reveal how the technology works its magic. 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...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/15/2023

Cadcorp Supports Customers in Gaining Deeper Insight from Data  Aaron Addison Takes Over as Executive Director of WGIC  Commercial UAV Expo 2023 Reports Largest Exhibit Hall and Attendee Growth  ASPRS Approves Edition 2 of the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards  Register for Trimble Dimensions NSPS Certified Sessions  China Finishing High-precision Ground-based Timing System  EuroGeographics Calls for...

Testifying as an Expert 

Legal Boundaries A boundary dispute case, or any case involving surveying, surveyors, landowners, and property rights (“property disputes”) is a different breed of civil litigation from most others. There are many unique aspects of this type of litigation not common to other cases.   The biggest difference is that the parties are paying for the litigation...