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Professional Land Surveyor Vlog 003 – ACSM and NSPS, What Is Going On?

April 26, 2012 in Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Videos, Vlog by EricColburn

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PLS Vlog 003 – ACSM and NSPS, What Is Going On?

Professional Land Surveyor Vlog discusses the proposed merger of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) with the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

There’s a dearth of information on exactly why ACSM is now in the place it is in. And, in reading ACSM’s proposed Agreement and Plan of Merger, I’m concerned that ACSM’s supposed “plan” just shifts their financial difficulties to NSPS.

So I’m asking, ACSM and NSPS, What Is Going On?

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Survey Hotfix Video

April 24, 2012 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos, Vlog by EricColburn

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Survey Hotfix Video

Get It While It’s Hot, New AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Survey Hotfix!

Well, it didn’t take long for a software bug and an AutoCAD Civil 3D survey hotfix.

“This hotfix resolves an issue with the Survey Figures Property Dialog. In the lower section of the panel you can now see the vertex properties for chain type figures.

Download the file appropriate for your operating system (32- or 64-bit AeccUiSurvey.arx)

Right Click on the AeccUiSurvey.arx file.

Browse to the installation location of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 on your machine (ie: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013)

Right click, select paste and the option to replace the existing AeccUiSurvey.arx file in this directory.

Relaunch AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 and confirm your issue is resolved.

Professional Land Surveyor Source: Autodesk”

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup February 5, 2012

February 5, 2012 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Links, MicroSurvey, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

Control Bound

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LightSquared Causes Falcone’s Harbinger Hedge Fund 47% Loss in 2011

February 4, 2012 in Business, Business Videos, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, News, Videos by EricColburn

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Falcone’s Harbinger Hedge Fund Lost 47% in 2011

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Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half

January 3, 2012 in Business, Business Videos, Land Surveying, News, Videos by EricColburn

Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half

Professional Land Surveyor News

Washington, DC, December 29, 2011

Pending home sales continued to gain in November and reached the highest level in 19 months, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1 in November from an upwardly revised 93.3 in October and is 5.9 percent above November 2010 when it stood at 94.5. The October upward revision resulted in a 10.4 percent monthly gain.

The last time the index was higher was in April 2010 when it reached 111.5 as buyers rushed to beat the deadline for the home buyer tax credit. The data reflects contracts but not closings.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the gains may result partially from delayed transactions. “Housing affordability conditions are at a record high and there is a pent-up demand from buyers who’ve been on the sidelines, but contract failures have been running unusually high. Some of the increase in pending home sales appears to be from buyers recommitting after an initial contract ran into problems, often with the mortgage,” he said.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup January 1, 2012

January 1, 2012 in AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Business Videos, Carlson, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Links, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Trimble, Videos by EricColburn

Happy New Year 2012! Credit: Creativity103 (flickr).

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Soyuz Launched With First Two Geopositioning Galileo Satellites

November 2, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, News, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

Soyuz Launched With First Two Geopositioning Galileo Satellites

A Soyuz rocket has lifted off on its maiden flight from Europe’s space base in South America, carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system.

The launch — the first by the veteran rocket beyond Russia’s historic bases at Plesetsk and Baikonur — is part of a commercial deal struck in 2003 to extend the range of Arianespace, which markets services from the European Space Agency (ESA) base in Kourou.

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LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators

October 11, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Links, News, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

LightSquared Part 2 on CSPAN

On The Communicators, the second part of our look at LightSquared, a company building a national wireless broadband network.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee and Jim Kirkland, founding member of the Coalition to Save our GPS are critical of LightSquared’s goals and business practices.

Also joining the discussion was Fred Schulte, senior reporter for iwatch news – who has followed the LightSquared story and reported on email exchanges between the White House and company officials.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video

October 10, 2011 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Links, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways

Civil Engineering Customers embracing Autodesks Road and Highway solutions with special focus on the Alaskan Way Viaduct & Seawall Replacement Project.

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For more information, click onto the Autodesk Civil Engineering Resource Center.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011

October 9, 2011 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Business Videos, C-Nav, Continuing Education, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, Links, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

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LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

October 8, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

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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 this week discussing the need for the wireless network and how LightSquared is addressing the issue.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011

September 18, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, Carlson, General, Geomatics, Hemisphere GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Links, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Trimble, Videos by EricColburn

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LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda?

September 17, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, News, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

GPS Constellation

Yesterday, I published a press release by House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri Rebuts LightSquared Ad in Letter to CEO and another press release where the Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network.

In summary, Congressman Petri, House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman, disputes the LightSquared arguments that the GPS manufacturers are on the wrong side of this interference issue, and Air Force Gen. William L. Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command, told members of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces yesterday that LightSquared’s new terrestrial network has the potential to wreak havoc on GPS systems that are vital to the military.

While doing some followup reading on this subject, I came across a YouTube video produced by LightSquared entitled “Find Out Who is Trying to Block Wireless Innovation in America.”

Facts or LightSquared Propaganda

So, does the LightSquared “Find Out Who is Trying to Block Wireless Innovation in America” video actually debunk several GPS interference myths? Are the statements made facts or are they LightSquared propaganda?

I do not know which side is right or wrong, but clearly one side is wrong, as both make opposing arguments making it crystal clear that only one side is making correct assertions. I’ve provided the video out of fairness to both sides and so that you can make your own decision on this controversial issue.

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Phil Staub of Garmin Explains the Threat to GPS from the LightSquared Broadband Plan

August 11, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, News, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

Phil Staub of Garmin explains the threat to GPS from the LightSquared broadband plan. Recorded at AirVenture 2011.

This is a good video explaining, in general terms, what the situation is with the GPS vs. LightSquared issue.

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Hexagon 2011 Keynote: Turning the Pace of Change into the World’s Advantage Video

June 8, 2011 in Business, Business Videos, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Leica, Leica, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos by EricColburn

Ola Rollén, President and CEO, commences Hexagon 2011 with a visually stunning and informative keynote address, “Turning the Pace of Change into the World’s Advantage”, which also included Hexagon Metrology President Norbert Hanke, Hexagon Geosystems President Juergen Dold, Intergraph PP&M President Gerhard Sallinger and Intergraph SG&I President John Graham.