American Surveyor - Vantage Point: "I Should Have Hired a Surveyor..."

It isn't often that we see a line like that in the news, so it certainly grabbed my attention. More frequently I hear moaning about surveying being a dying profession. Here is just one (expensive) example of why I disagree.  Solebury Township in southeastern Pennsylvania still boasts a number of old hardwood trees, and the miscreant in this instance was a property owner who simply wanted a better view from the deck of the country home he had just bought but not yet moved into. He hired an arborist to clear some trees that he thought were on his property. 22 trees later, the landowner (a retired lawyer) realized...Click here to read full story...

Ontario Land Surveyors Lose Class Action Copyright Lawsuit

Teranet Inc., the company that has the rights to distribute Ontario’s real estate and land records online, has defeated a class action lawsuit in which 350 land surveyors claimed the company was breaching their copyright.  Click here to read full story...

GNSS and the Real-time Network: The Surveyor’s Best Friend

A lot of talk is being made about UAVs these days and how this technology is going to revolutionize many industries, with surveying being one of the biggest users. I won’t deny the impact this new tool is going to have on our profession (as written in my last column). But I don’t think it will compare to the use of GNSS technology and how it modernized measuring methods for the surveyor. I’m often asked by young surveyors what I think is the biggest improvement experienced by the surveying profession. Click here to read full story....