Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Professional Land Surveying Survey

Would You Recommend Land Surveying As A Career Choice For Your Children Or Other Young Relatives?

To Be A Land Surveyor Or Not To Be A Land Surveyor? That Is The Question If your daughter, son, niece or nephew are looking at land surveying or geomatics as a career, would you recommend to them land surveying as a career choice? If you would recommend to them pursuing land surveying as a…

February 26, 2013
Rate AutoCAD Civil 3D For Downloading Survey Information

Rate AutoCAD Civil 3D For Downloading Survey Information I’ve recently had several discussions with both land surveyors and engineers questioning how best to integrate (and what software to do so) land surveying data with AutoCAD Civil 3D? I’m seeing that with AutoCAD Land Desktop retired, there is a stronger push to get to full AutoCAD…

June 18, 2012
How Many Computer Monitors Do You Use Together?

How Many Computer Monitors Do You Use Together? In the past, I worked with a desktop computer connected to a second computer monitor, which was very handy. Then, when I returned my last desktop computer and second computer monitor to the lessor (I think that’s Greek for the devil), I bought a laptop and soon missed…

April 2, 2012
What Is The Major Challenge Facing Professional Land Surveyors Today?

What Is The Major Challenge Facing Professional Land Surveyors Today? The land surveying industry faces many challenges, not the least of which are due to the current financial end economic mess. But, is this the major challenge facing Professional Land Surveyors today? Looking beyond the economic situation, it seems to me that our industry suffers…

March 4, 2012
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Has The Land Surveying Industry Let You Down?

In this Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking: Has The Land Surveying Industry Let You Down? On several online land surveying forums I’ve found posts written by land surveyors discouraged with the state of our land surveying industry. Largely economy driven, or lack thereof, one theme commonly found is a sense of disappointment and being let down by…

December 26, 2011
Geo-Plus VisionPlus Voted 2011 Best Surveying Software for Professional Land Surveyors

Geo-Plus, Providing Solutions for Land Management Professionals, Voted Best Surveying Software for Professional Land Surveyors for their Geo-Plus VisionPlus Land Surveying Software Geo-Plus VisionPlus has been voted the 2011 Best Surveying Software for Professional Land Surveyors on EricColburn.com with an impressive 45% of the votes. With over twenty-five entries in the Professional Land Surveyor Survey, the loyalty of Geo-Plus VisionPlus users…

August 15, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-What is the Best Surveying Software for Professional Land Surveyors?

In this Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking: What is the Best Surveying Software for Professional Land Surveyors? Recently, at the Professional Land Surveyor LinkedIn Group I asked this very question, which received 18 comments from land surveyors revealing their ideas on what’s the best surveying software for professional land surveyors. From their comments, I put…

June 14, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Are You a Geographic Information Surveyor (GIS)?

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking: Are You a Geographic Information Surveyor (GIS)? Too often we micro-define and minimize what it is that we do by defining our profession by what our job tasks are, by what our tools are, by our business processes, or by cultural and historical definitions (some defined…

January 24, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Rate the 2011 ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey Standards

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking for you to: Rate the 2011 ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey Standards Yesterday, I posted that NSPS and ALTA Boards Approve 2011 ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey Standards. In that post you can find a link to the new standards and download them from ALTA’s website. I’m in the…

December 17, 2010
Eliminate Either ACSM or NSPS, or Merge the Two, Which is Best?

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking for your opinion on: Eliminate Either ACSM or NSPS, or Merge the Two, Which is Best? A while back I wrote about, and also created the Professional Land surveyor Survey, Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Should the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) Separate from the American Congress…

November 16, 2010
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-So, is it the Heat or the Humidity that’s worse?

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking the question: So, is it the Heat or the Humidity that’s worse? With it being in the Dog Days of Summer here in the northern hemisphere I’ve been seeing a lot of weather related talk about the heat and humidity – hence this weeks Professional Land…

July 20, 2010
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Should NSPS Separate from ACSM?

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking the question: Should NSPS Separate from ACSM? Recently, the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) announced that it is seeking to separate from the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM). In a joint NSPS letter by Wayne Harrison, NSPS President, John Matonich, NSPS Immediate Past President, and…

June 15, 2010
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Post Great Recession-Are Jobs Going to Come Back?

In this week’s PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY I’m asking the question: Post Great Recession-Are Jobs Going to Come Back? I’ve been thinking lately about what the jobs situation in the land surveying industry will look like as as a full recovery takes hold and the Great Recession, hopefully, comes to an end. Lately I’ve heard several…

May 17, 2010
Professional Land Surveyor Survey-What is Your Favorite Social Networking Site?

In this week’s PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY I’m asking the question: What is Your Favorite Social Networking Site? In the last two or more years I’ve seen more and more professional land surveyors, engineers, AutoCAD users, and designers using social networking sites like Facebook, Land Surveyors United, Linkedin, MySpace, Twitter, and Tumblr. These are just…

April 29, 2010

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