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• Carlson’s 30th  • Visit to Breithaupt  • Safety  • Mesoamericans  • ExpressMap  • SurvPC  • $15,000 Question   • Monument Placement   • Feedback   • Curt Brown   • Haunted by the Past
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Editorial: Carlson’s 30th Anniversary
Downtown Cincinnati was the site for the recent Carlson User Conference and 30th Anniversary celebration. Held in the Netherlands Plaza, a gorgeous art deco building built during the Depression, the conference was another success. I found it interesting that the developer of the Netherlands ....
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Cheves 
The World's Oldest Instrument Manufacturer
I've long had a soft spot in my heart for Germany. My German grandfather emigrated to this country as a child in the late 1800s, his family possessing little more than the knowledge of raising Holstein cows and the strong work ethic, one of ....
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Larry Trojak 
GIS Enhances Safety + Efficiency at Dow Corning's Midland Plant
While the concept of using GIS to accurately identify and map physical assets is widely accepted in cities, towns and municipalities throughout the country, that approach has not yet found the same level of broad acceptance within private industry. Perhaps because of a misplaced ....
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Huls & Rager 
Trails of the Mesoamericans in Lakkin Itza (Florida)
Lakkin Itza is the author's play on words, comparing Florida to the more famous Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. Florida being east of Yucatan, the author located this Mayan glyph representing east in the John Montgomery Dictionary of ....
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Gary Kent 
Reconnaissance: ExpressMap--The End of Surveying?
There has been a tremendous flurry of emails flying back and forth across the country over the last few weeks regarding ExpressMap™ and how First American Title is using it to try to put surveyors out of business. This column will try to separate the myths from the facts of ExpressMap ....
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Shawn Billings, PS 
Product Review: Carlson SurvPC and Supervisor
In 1983, Dad founded J. D. Billings Land Surveying Company. Survey software development was a burgeoning market with the relatively affordable and easily obtainable personal computer suddenly available. That same year Carlson Software was born. In 1985, because Bruce ....
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Angle Points: The $15,000 Question
The fax arrived at my office on one of those fine, sunny afternoons, one of those days you get up early just to stretch your legs and feel the warmth of the sun. It read: "Finally, it's over!!!!! The Court entered Judgment last Friday...!!!!! I'm faxing it to you--of particular interest to you should ....
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Landon Blake, PS 
Footsteps: The "Weight" of Monument Placement
The placement of a property corner monument seems like such a simple act. If your land surveying practice is like mine, you may not remember the last time you set a property corner monument. Or, if your practice is focused on small property surveys, you may set property corners frequently ....
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Freedback 
FeedBack
Einstein on Surveying: I find "The American Surveyor" a must have publication. However, I am troubled that so much emphasis is placed on the technology and so little is placed on Boundary surveys. I believe the licensing of surveyors is for the express purpose of protecting the ....
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Curt Brown 
The Curt Brown Chronicles: A Lasting Legacy
Curtis Brown served as the elected president of ACSM in 1965 and 1966. He also served as ACSM's Chairman of the Task Committee on Education. All the while, he continued lecturing extensively across the country. Amongst his many endeavors, he returned to Purdue University where he ....
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Lathrop 
Vantage Point: Haunted by the Past
They never die. They continue to haunt us long after they should have been retired once and for all. But once approved, old subdivisions and developments often manage to sustain a faint heartbeat years beyond changes in zoning, changes in topography, and changes in how we ....
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