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Editor’s points: Learning from each other.
Operating a successful surveying and mapping business has become increasingly challenging in the last few years.
The Business Side: The big picture.
For well over 100 years, the National Bureau of Standards calibrated steel survey tape.
Traversing the law: Unintended consequences.
I
recently encountered a unique situation in American property law dealing with
the doctrine of acquiescence.
Between the Pages: A POB Book Review
Surveying the Land, Volume One: Distance Measuring Tools and Their Accuracy, 1620 to 1920, by Milton Denny, PLS
Editor’s Points: Moving at the speed of life.
I’ve had some interesting discussions with surveyors lately regarding POB’s coverage of technology advances.
Traversing the Law: Retracement in a public domain state.
I
promised a couple of months ago that I had a retracement case I’d address in
the context of the relevancy of a federal surveying manual, especially as that
relevancy has been pinned to Alabama case law.
Professional Topography: The true meaning of professional.
Every dictionary and encyclopedia defines the word “professional” in different ways.
Surveying GIS: What is a GISP?
It’s
hard to believe my second career as a “GIS evangelist” is now going into its
10th year. But as the Romans used to say, tempus fugit.*
Editor’s Points: The rapid advance of the e-revolution.
For the second time in as many months, I again heard someone say that the surveying profession will be so different in 10 years that we won’t even recognize it.
IRS helps small businesses with claiming new health care tax credit
Small businesses and tax-exempt organizations have been puzzling over how to claim the small business health care tax credit, which kicks in this year. The IRS has answers to some of their questions.
Want to be smart about your energy? Here's an idea
A local energy non-profit is kicking off a week of programs on how to save power and make some of it yourself with a fair on Sunday.
PriceSmart's revenue increase in August
PriceSmart Inc.'s revenue climbed in August as customers continued to seek bargains on basic items at the company's warehouse clubs amid a soft economy.
BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
Oil giant BP PLC laid much of the blame for the rig explosion and the massive Gulf of Mexico spill on itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been analyzed.
Smithfield reports 1st-quarter profit
Smithfield Foods Inc. says higher selling prices for pork and improvement in hog market prices helped it return to a profit in its fiscal first-quarter.
Oracle plans to give Hurd $950,000 annual salary
Oracle plans to pay newly appointed President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 a year. The company also says the former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO, who was ousted by that company last month, is eligible for a fiscal 2011 bonus of as much as $10 million.
Local GIS Tidbits
So, what's the price for Woolpert implemented City Works (sic)? Columbia County, Georgia got a "great deal."
According to Deputy Administrator Scott Johnson, the county was interested in the same program in 2001, but declined because of cost. Now, n...Read more
Esri Geoportal Extension Goes Free and Open Source (?)
Word from Esri early this morning that today Esri's education industry manager Michael Gould will announce the change in licensing of the Geoportal Extension at FOSS4G in Barcelona today.
Marten Hogeweg as written about it in his blog. If I read i...Read more
Esri Offers Social Media Map of Boulder Fire
It's quite like all the other social media maps. I wonder how this resource is used?...Read more
Ireland debates bank-bailouts, awaits EU ruling
Ireland's government privately debated Wednesday how to proceed with its plans for protecting the nation's struggling banks and in particular whether to keep pouring billions into nationalized Anglo Irish Bank.