Category: Members

  • Silos Kill Business

    Silos and paraprofessional competence/utilization are two of the biggest problems undermining our industry. In this Premium Post let’s look at silos and how they’re killing your business. The Oxford Dictionary defines silos as follows: noun (plural silos) a system, process, department, etc. that operates in isolation from others:it’s vital that team members step out of…

  • Selling Surveying: Customer Call Back Timing

    Business 101 for any business, including land surveying, includes many basic building blocks for success. One such area is our timing for potential customer call back. In this premium post I’ll share with you why your customer callback timing is so important, current customer call back timing trends, and how to improve your customer call back…

  • Working With Expanded And Improved Teams

    Premium Post How do you view your work environment and teams? In many companies, team organization and team building is centered and focused around tightly knit internal silos, although I believe this is changing at light speed. Well, they’re sometimes more geographically tight-knit than they are tight-knit in an effective and emotionally compatible manner. Do…

  • Trimble Introduces Next Generation Tablet PC for Surveying

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2013—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today its next generation Trimble® Tablet PC for surveying. The Trimble Tablet is a lightweight, rugged and highly mobile field computer that can operate with Trimble’s suite of receivers and total stations to provide a complete surveying solution. With Trimble Access™ field software onboard, the Trimble Tablet…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 21, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity: USGS National Atlas Streamer Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 14, 2013 Tweet Something Cool You Did Today Surveying And Use #mydaysurveying Hashtag Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 7, 2013 Surveyor Setting Brass Offset Tag Video Geodesy & Geomatics at UNB Fredericton Video Professional Land Surveyor…

  • Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity: USGS National Atlas Streamer

    In this week’s Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity I’d like to introduce you to a new mapping service from the USGS, part of the National Atlas, called Streamer. Navigate America’s Major Rivers Without Getting Wet

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 14, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Tweet Something Cool You Did Today Surveying And Use #mydaysurveying Hashtag Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 7, 2013 Surveyor Setting Brass Offset Tag Video Geodesy & Geomatics at UNB Fredericton Video Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 30, 2013 Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 23, 2013 Trimble Announces…

  • Tweet Something Cool You Did Today Surveying And Use #mydaysurveying Hashtag

    The Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors, via their twitter account (theOSLS), introduced a fantastic way to promote the profession of surveying to the world. All you have to do is to tweet something cool you did today surveying and use this hashtag:  #mydaysurveying Below, you can read (and retweet) professional land surveyor tweets using the #mydaysurveying hashtag –…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 7, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup July 7, 2013 Surveyor Setting Brass Offset Tag Video Geodesy & Geomatics at UNB Fredericton Video Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 30, 2013 Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 23, 2013 Trimble Announces New TerraFlex Software and Cloud Services for GIS Applications Executive Director…

  • Surveyor Setting Brass Offset Tag Video

    Surveyor setting brass offset tag.

  • Geodesy & Geomatics at UNB Fredericton Video

    Find out what past students have to say about the Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering program at University of New Brunswick (UNB) Fredericton.

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 30, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Archive – Last 3 weeks: Updates Around The Interwebs: The Professional Land Surveyor Daily The Autocad Civil 3D Daily Geomatics Today

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 23, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Trimble Announces New TerraFlex Software and Cloud Services for GIS Applications Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors Davis-Bacon Act Testimony at House Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing Professional Land Surveyor LinkedIn Group Tops 5000 Members Professional Surveyor Magazine Moving from Land Desktop to AutoCAD Civil 3D…

  • Trimble Announces New TerraFlex Software and Cloud Services for GIS Applications

    Trimble Unifies Field Data Collection for Diverse Geospatial Applications SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 18, 2013—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today TerraFlex™, a new software and services platform to manage data collection activities for everyday geospatial projects. Trimble® TerraFlex helps managers maintain control of the flow of geo-enabled field data.

  • Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors Davis-Bacon Act Testimony at House Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing

    Curtis Sumner, Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), testifies at House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on June 19, 2013 concerning the Davis-Bacon act. Watch the Davis-Bacon Act Testimony Video

  • Professional Land Surveyor LinkedIn Group Tops 5000 Members

    Professional Land Surveyor LinkedIn Group Tops 5000 Members I’m proud to announce that within the past few days the Professional Land Surveyor group on LinkedIn has Topped 5000 Members! For all of you who’ve joined, I want to say THANK YOU! If you’ve not yet joined the Professional Land Surveyor group on LinkedIn, you can do so…

  • Professional Surveyor Magazine Moving from Land Desktop to AutoCAD Civil 3D Software Review

    Last month’s Professional Surveyor Magazine included a Software Review: My Evolution from Land Desktop to Carlson Software by Jennifer DiBona, aka That CAD Girl. This was the first of a two-part series of articles explaining how and why two AutoCAD Land Desktop experts decided to move either to Carlson Software or AutoCAD Civil 3D. This month’s Professional Surveyor Magazine includes…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 16, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: NGS Announces Release of Geodetic Data from Geoid Slope Validation Survey 2011 (GSVS11) Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 9, 2013 The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 13 New Leica MultiWorx for AutoCAD: Easy Creation of Survey Deliverables from Laser Scanning and Imaging with the New Leica Nova MS50 MultiStation…

  • NGS Announces Release of Geodetic Data from Geoid Slope Validation Survey 2011 (GSVS11)

    Between February 2011 and April 2012, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) executed one of the most comprehensive geodetic surveys in its history: the Geoid Slope Validation Survey of 2011 (GSVS11).

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup June 9, 2013

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Archive – Last 3 weeks: Updates Around The Interwebs: The Professional Land Surveyor Daily State line re-do has residents living in two states Geomatics Today Maine Governor Paul Lepage To Keynote MAPPS Summer Conference, July 22 The Autocad Civil 3D Daily Professional Surveyor Magazine Software Review: Moving from Land…