Year: 2012
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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 28, 2012
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: NOAA Releases NGS Data Explorer Map Application NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced Topcon Technology Supports One-Of-A-Kind Preservation, Renovation Project In Pompeii Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 21, 2012 You Need More Than An AutoCAD Civil 3D Cheerleader Or Apologist Leica ScanStation P20: Three World’s…
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NOAA Releases NGS Data Explorer Map Application
NOAA Releases NGS Data Explorer Map Application This week, NOAA released a new web application to allow users to view National Geodetic Survey (NGS) geodetic control across the United States and its territories using Google Maps.
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NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced
NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced Historical Topographic Sheets (“T-Sheets”) produced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey are referenced to various horizontal datums in use over the two hundred years since the first Survey of the Coast in 1816. To use these maps to document coastal change, a conversion has…
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Topcon Technology Supports One-Of-A-Kind Preservation, Renovation Project In Pompeii
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) and its president and CEO, Ray O’Connor, were honored by the City of Pompeii, Italy and four Italian universities for assisting with the “preservation and renovation” of the historic landmark of Pompeii. Old Pompeii, one of Italy’s major tourist attractions with 25,000 visitors a day, was literally “falling apart” after 2011’s…