Month: October 2011

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video

    AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video

    Civil Engineering Customers embracing Autodesks Road and Highway solutions with special focus on the Alaskan Way Viaduct & Seawall Replacement Project. Watch the AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video For more information, click onto the Autodesk Civil Engineering Resource Center.

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09 Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company LightSquared CEO on The Communicators Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction Elgin & Knowles-The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) for Arkansas Reference Book and Manual New…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09

    Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09

    Eric Colburn #FollowFriday List is out! http://t.co/V7DA0NzD ? Top stories today via @gpsequipout @indydrafter @geomaticscanada @ipinda # The Autocad Civil 3D Daily is out! http://t.co/a1n5PurV ? Top stories today via @civil3d_books @bassiebers # The Professional Land Surveyor Daily is out! http://t.co/ZTVbmqbD ? Top stories today via @surveying @firstamdatatree @nn4d # Geomatics Today is out! http://t.co/fCJbGsWn…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    In earlier Premium Posts, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use to run your land surveying business, and Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success.…

  • LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    On a special hour-long The Communicators, Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO of LightSquared, discusses the company’s effort to build a $14 billion high-speed wireless network and concerns that its network might interfere with GPS global positioning equipment, including some used by the military. Sanjiv Ahuja wrote a full-page letter to the American public published in some newspapers…

  • Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction

    Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa continues to seek answers regarding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its dealings with the firm, LightSquared. This week, Grassley wrote separate letters to the top investor in and the chief executive of the company, seeking materials that would shed light on why the agency has allowed the…

  • Elgin & Knowles-The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) for Arkansas Reference Book and Manual

    Elgin & Knowles-The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) for Arkansas Reference Book and Manual

    New Reference Book and Manual, The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS)for Arkansas, is now available! At the recent fall conference of the Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors, the reference book and manual, The U.S. Public Land Survey System for Arkansas, was introduced by Dr. Richard Elgin, P.E., P.S. Elgin along with Dr. David Knowles, P.E., P.S,…

  • New Esri Basemap Highlights Thematic Content

    New Esri Basemap Highlights Thematic Content

    Free Light Gray Canvas Basemap Service Now Available October 6, 2011 User data shown on top of Light Gray Canvas map is easier to distinguish compared to user data displayed on busier maps

  • C-Nav Announces New 5cm GNSS Service

    C-Nav Announces New 5cm GNSS Service

    C-Nav Announces New 5cm GNSS Service Lafayette, Louisiana, October 4, 2011 – C-Nav, the premier supplier of international GNSS Precise Point Positioning services is pleased to announce the launch of its improved five-centimeter C-NavC2 GNSS subscription service.  C-NavC2 supports GPS + GLONASS corrections and delivers the most accurate real-time Precise Point Positioning solutions around the world.

  • National Geodetic Survey (NGS) New CORS Coordinates and Absolute Antenna Calibration Pages

    National Geodetic Survey (NGS) New CORS Coordinates and Absolute Antenna Calibration Pages

    National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Releases New CORS Coordinates and Absolute Antenna Calibration Pages NAD83(2011,MA11,PA11) epoch 2010.00 Coordinates On September 6, 2011, NGS updated the National Spatial Reference System NAD 83 (CORS96, MARP00, PACP00) positions and velocities for all CORS sites, to NAD 83 (2011, MA11, PA11). The NAD 83 (2011) frame, which is relative to the…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Hotfix for Prospector Lock-Up

    AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Hotfix for Prospector Lock-Up

    AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Hotfix – Prospector Lock-Up From Autodesk: This AutoCAD Civil 3D Hotfix resolves an issue where the Prospector would lock-up when adding or editing multiple Point Groups, Point Group Styles or multiple other Civil object groups or styles in the Prospector. Note: While the lock-up can be released without the hotfix by…

  • Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0 for Viva Total Station and Viva GNSS with Exciting New Features

    Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0 for Viva Total Station and Viva GNSS with Exciting New Features

    Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0 for Viva Total Station and Viva GNSS with exciting new features 4 October 2011 (Norcross, GA Oct 4, 2011) – Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce version 4.0 of the easy-to-use Leica SmartWorx Viva onboard software being available in November 2011. This new version is packed with exciting new features to make…

  • New England Section ACSM Presents: Emerging Technologies in Surveying & Mapping Seminar

    New England Section ACSM Presents: Emerging Technologies in Surveying & Mapping Seminar

    New England Section ACSM Presents Emerging Technologies in Surveying & Mapping Seminar October 15, 2011 The New England Section ACSM invites you to an Emerging Technologies in Surveying & Mapping Seminar presented by Claire Kiedrowski, ASPRS Certified Photo-grammetrist and President of KAPPA Mapping, Inc. located in Bangor, Maine. This Emerging Technologies in Surveying & Mapping Seminar will…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 2, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 2, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02 Trimble’s Portfolio of Survey Solutions Allows Surveyors to Collect, Share and Deliver Data Faster to Improve Productivity Optech Announces New Airborne Laser Terrain Mappers (ALTM) Models: Orion M/C 300 Spectra Precision Introduces New ProMark 800 GNSS Receiver and Survey Pro 5.0…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02

    Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02

    Eric Colburn #FollowFriday List is out! http://t.co/V7DA0NzD ? Top stories today via @gpsequipout @johnevansdesign @terrago # Geomatics Today is out! http://t.co/fCJbGsWn ? Top stories today via @metaprde @presseguru @praktuell @tmj_mel_eng # NPR: Recycled Water Quenches San Antonio’s Thirst-More at http://n.pr/q1qHLe # The Autocad Civil 3D Daily is out! http://t.co/a1n5PurV ? Top stories today via @c3dreminders…