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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...

Taking Surveying Underground

By Ben Shinabery Louisville’s massive Mega Caverns presented challenges for a huge subterranean survey Every day more than 150,000 people drive past the interstate billboards advertising the Louisville Mega Caverns not realizing they just drove over what is classified as the largest commercial building in Kentucky, even though it is entirely underground. What once was...

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. 

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/29/2024

Global Surveyor’s Day is March 21  Public Comments Sought on Draft ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standard Version 2.0  Commercial UAV Announces 2024 Advisory Board  Woolpert Acquires Ireland-Based Murphy Geospatial, a Leading European Geospatial Firm  Chung Hsing Brings Geospatial Data Acquisition to the Next Level in Taiwan  Topcon Announces MC-Max Asphalt Paving and Milling Solutions  Bilanciai Group...

Let’s Get Real About Property

One of the more serious problems with the surveying profession is our schizophrenic relationship with property and the associated property rights. For my entire professional surveying career, too many surveyors seem to think we have nothing to do with property rights; that our job is to simply layout the math and measurements contained in the...