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Latest Issue
Volume 21 Issue 2 // June 2024
Departments
From the Editor
Absolute Accuracy
The latest issue of our sister publication, LIDAR Magazine, recently contained an article that caught my eye. While the article is ostensibly about…
Bad Backsights
Psychic Surveying
I used to listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio show when driving across the desert at night. His shows were full…
Everything Is Somewhere
The Pier Stone, and Thomas Jefferson as Geomancer-in-Chief
Probably the majority of American land surveyors know of the Jefferson Pier’s existence, while at the same time having only hazy and subtly…
Vantage Point
Washed Away Boundaries
I was fascinated by the February 2024 conviction of someone in Michigan who had purposely diverted a river—by hand. It took about a…
The Business of Surveying
The Five General Areas of Due Diligence
We’ve all seen television ads for car companies that offer to buy your used car online. You fill out a short questionnaire, they…