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Leica Zeno GIS: Simplified Positioning With 3rd Party Applications

May 22, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, News

Leica Zeno GIS

The output of local grid coordinates allows Leica Zeno GIS users who have installed a 3rd party GIS application to benefit from Leica Geosystems’ high-precision projection and transformation engines.

(Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 16 May 2013) – Leica Geosystems’ latest version of Zeno Connect supports the output of local grid coordinates in addition to the already supported output of WGS84 coordinates. The output of local grid coordinates allows Leica Zeno GIS users who have installed a 3rd party GIS application to benefit from Leica Geosystems’ high-precision projection and transformation engines. This major enhancement ensures that the mobile application uses reliable GNSS data to deliver highly accurate positions required for many asset collections today.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup May 19, 2013

May 19, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links, News

Benchmark Disk

Benchmark Disk

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Carlson SurvCE 3.0 Data Collection Software Released

May 11, 2013 in Business, Carlson, Carlson, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Surveying Software

Carlson Software Announces Newest SurvCE 3.0 Data Collection Software Update

Work with Esri in SurvCE

Load Esri maps, input-edit GIS attributes in SurvCE 3.0

MAYSVILLE, Kentucky, U.S.A (May 2013) — At the opening session of the Carlson Software 30th Anniversary User Conference held recently in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bruce Carlson, president and founder of Carlson Software, announced that the newest version of Carlson Software’s popular data collection software – Carlson SurvCE 3.0 – was about to be released. Well, it is now here.

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Leica GR25 WLAN-Enabled GNSS Reference Server Provides Unique Internet Sharing

May 10, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, News

Leica GR25 WLAN-enabled GNSS Reference Server

With the WLAN module with and other advanced communication interfaces, the integrated modular devices management, multi-user management and high-end security the GR25 Reference Server offers the most flexible internet connection sharing available.

(Heerbrugg, Switzerland,  8 May 2013) - The Leica GR25 GNSS Reference Server has now been enhanced with a standard on-board WLAN module to extend its Ethernet and mobile wireless internet connectivity options.  This is accompanied by the new RefWorx on-board firmware v3.00, adding unique internet connection sharing allowing other computers or network devices connected to Ethernet or WLAN to directly access the Internet through the GR10 or GR25 server’s new routing capability. The new flexible Site Monitor positioning modes and many other improvements are also included. These new capabilities together with other advanced communication interfaces, the integrated modular devices management, multi-user management and high end security means that currently only the GR25 provides a true GNSS Reference Server functionality.

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Professional Surveyor Magazine Carlson Software Review

May 8, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Carlson, Geomatics, Land Surveying, News, Product Reviews, Surveying Software

Carlson Software Review

Carlson Software Review

In case you haven’t yet read your copy of Professional Surveyor Magazine this month, I want to let you know about a software review article of Carlson Software written by Jennifer DiBona. In the article, Jennifer describes her evolution from AutoCAD Land Desktop (LDT) to Carlson Software.

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Topcon Announces Expanded Cloud Storage for MAGNET Enterprise

May 3, 2013 in Land Surveying

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Topcon announces expanded cloud storage for MAGNET Enterprise

Topcon announces expanded cloud storage for MAGNET Enterprise

Topcon Positioning Group announces expanded cloud storage capacity for all MAGNET™ Enterprise paid subscribers.  Cloud storage is a company-wide service that provides secure data storage for organizations working in the MAGNET Enterprise environment.

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MAPPS Commends Reintroduction of “Map it Once, Use it Many Times” Act in Congress

May 2, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, News, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

News

NEWS

MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association for private sector geospatial firms, today commended Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) for reintroducing H.R. 1604, the “Map It Once, Use It Many Times” Act on April 17.

H.R. 1604 is intended to reform, consolidate, and reorganize federal geospatial activities. Recently, a number of Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have identified duplicative and a lack of coordination in federal geospatial activities. This bill provides a priority-setting mechanism to enhance the use of geospatial data, products, technology, and services for federal agencies, Congress and non-federal stakeholders.

“This legislation will save money, make government more efficient, and eliminate not only government agency duplication of one another, but government duplication of and competition with private enterprise. Use of the private sector for geospatial data, technology and services is important to national economic growth and job creation, and is of particular interest to Colorado given the significant concentration of firms doing this work in our state,” said Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05).

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ZEB1 Hand Held Mapping System Used to Explore Aboriginal Caves

April 22, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Laser Scanning, News, Remote Sensing, Technology Videos, Videos

Zebedee Credit RobertZlot1 28.3.13ZEB1, the world’s first truly mobile handheld rapid laser mapping system has been used to explore Aboriginal cave markings in South Australia. The strange markings, called finger flutings, were thought to have been left in the Koonalda Cave between about 30,000 and 10,000 years ago.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup April 14, 2013

April 14, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links

Free Professional Land Surveyor Newsletter

Free Professional Land Surveyor Newsletter

 

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 System Requirements

April 8, 2013 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, News, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 System Requirements

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 System Requirements

It’s that time of year when Autodesk rolls out it’s latest and greatest version of AutoCAD products. So, I thought you might like to know what are the system requirements for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 System Requirements

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Southern Polytechnic State University Surveying and Mapping Program

April 6, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, News, Videos

Southern Polytechnic State University Surveying and Mapping Program

Southern Polytechnic State University Surveying and Mapping Program

This video presentation has been prepared by Surveying and mapping students of Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU), Marietta, GA

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 31, 2013

March 31, 2013 in Land Surveying

Snake in the Field

Snake in the Field

New Training Courses

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 24, 2013

March 24, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links

Tree Swallowing a Boulder

Tree Swallowing a Boulder

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Leica iCON Introduces New ‘Roading’ Application and Major Productivity Gains with Updated iCONstruct v1.5 Field Software

March 23, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, Leica, News, Surveying Software

Leica iCON CC50 and CC60-61 Field Controllers

Leica iCON CC50 and CC60-61 Field Controllers

Leica iCON Introduces New ‘Roading’ Application and Major Productivity Gains with Updated iCONstruct v1.5 Field Software

Leica Geosystems has released a new, enhanced version of the iCONstruct field software for its pioneering Leica iCON portfolio of tailor-made positioning and measuring solutions for construction professionals.

iCONstruct field v1.5 significantly improves and further optimizes construction workflow efficiency with the Leica iCON CC50 and CC60/61 field controllers and the Leica iCON gps 60 and iCON robot 50 positioning sensors to better meet the different needs of construction personnel on site.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 17, 2013

March 17, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links

Pawtucket North Providence Town Line Bound

Pawtucket and North Providence Town Line Bound

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Links, Schonstedt, Surveying Software

Research Analysis Workbook (RAW)

Research Analysis Workbook (RAW)

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National Surveyors Week – March 17-23, 2013 Announced By The National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).

March 6, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, GPS, Land Surveying, News

nsps_logo_newNational Surveyors Week – March 17-23, 2013

National Surveyors Week will be celebrated nationwide March 17-23, according to the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).

Hundreds of surveyors nationwide are planning activities, such as talks to school groups, contacts with their local news media about the importance of the nation’s surveying profession, booths at popular community locations to describe the importance of the work and role of surveyors and their contributions to society. These activities will enable citizens to look back at the historic contributions of surveying and look ahead to the exciting new technologies that are constantly modernizing this honored and learned profession.

The always popular GPS Day is being held in conjunction with National Surveyors Week, and will be held on March 16 as a lead-in to our week.

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senseFly’s eBee Drone Maps Swiss Alpine Valley Video

February 25, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Light Unmanned Aircraft, Members, Remote Sensing, senseFly, Technology Videos, Videos

senseFly's eBee drone

senseFly’s eBee drone

There’s a lot of controversy in the US about drones and UAV’s. Resolving safety and privacy are no small issues, but this technology is coming and offers an opportunity for land surveying and geomatic companies to enter the aerial mapping markets.

Will you be ready when the drone mapping opportunity strikes?

Watch the senseFly’s eBee Drone Maps Swiss Alpine Valley Video

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup February 24, 2013

February 24, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links

1850 Survey Plat Tree

1850 Survey Plat Tree

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup February 17, 2013

February 17, 2013 in Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Links

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