Here’s an inspirational story and video about Mike Hanson, who is an avid outdoorsman, GPS user, and happens to be blind. Despite his disability, Mike plans on hiking the entire Appalachian Trail solo only with the help of his GPS to guide him.
That’s right; he plans on hiking the entire 2,174 mile Appalachian Trail solo [...]
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This site Is Optomized For Mobile Devices Like The iPhone
I’m using a mobile device (iPhone) more and more everyday and I know that many of you are too, so here’s a quick update to let you know that this site is now optimized for mobile devices.
If you visited this site before using your mobile device, [...]
If you have children (old and young) looking for the location of Santa on this Christmas Eve, you can track his gift giving journey on NORAD’s website.
NORAD has been tracking Santa since 1955 beginning with NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Defense Command (CONAD). In 1958 NORAD replaced CONAD taking over the mission of tracking Santa’s flight [...]
Land Surveyor Danny Cahill Wins The NBC Show The Biggest Loser
Last night, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma land surveyor and musician, Danny Cahill won the NBC Show “The Biggest Loser”, earning him a $250,000 prize. At the beginning of Season 8 he weighed in at 430 pounds and showed a great deal of determination and focus [...]
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The following news story is a very interesting article I found about Professional Land Surveyors participating in an Auburn University-sponsored workshop, “Locating the Ellicott Mounds Along the Alabama/ Florida Boundary”:
Andalusia starting point for ‘mound hunt’
Professional surveyors look for centuries-old markers of Alabama-Florida line
By Justin Schuver (Contact) | Andalusia Star-News
Published Friday, December 4, 2009
More than 35 professional [...]
Here are a few of the many fantastic and interesting photographs submitted on the Professional Land Surveyor Facebook Group. Visit our group to see all of the other wonderful photographs and to submit your favorite land surveying pictures, too!
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Just a quick note about the Professional Land Surveyor Newsletters. If you already subscribe you no doubt have noticed that I’ve added a few new features to these weekly newsletters, which I hope helps you to broaden your knowledge of other professionals and specifically helps you to navigate the social media sites making a few [...]
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GeoVation, an online initiative aiming to promote innovation with geography, has launched an awards programme with a prize fund of £21,000 available to develop the best entries.
?The initiative – supported by mapping agency Ordnance Survey – aims to help individuals, businesses and communities bring their map?based ideas to life. There are three themes: crime, health [...]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Vandenberg successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex late last week.
The rocket carried WorldView-2, a high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite, into polar orbit.
With confirmation of the payload’s delivery into orbit and signal acquisition, the launch was pronounced a success.
Col. David Buck, the 30th Space Wing commander, was [...]
How cool is this!
3D laser scanners were used in the new Radiohead music video of their song “House Of Cards”. I remember the first time I saw a demonstration of a 3D laser scanner, where the conference room and a mans upper torso and head were scanned, and thinking “this is really cool!” – Apparently [...]
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