- Editor's Desk: Pockets of Prosperity by Tom Gibson
- Letters to the Editor
- Out of Plumb by Chase Perryman
Giving surveyors something to laugh about!
- Feature: Eye on Movement by Vicki Speed
As construction booms in New York City, automatic total stations monitor nearby buildings to make sure they don’t move too much.
- Feature: Which Way to Turn? by Dan Rafter
The debate over whether to buy, lease, or rent surveying equipment continues, as options offer advantages, particularly when it comes to GPS receivers.
- Feature: A Closer Look at Insurance by Debra Pellet
In the current down economy, experts say surveying firms should pay more attention to their professional liability insurance. Here, one tells the ins and outs of the business.
- Feature: Stakes, Nails and More by Michelle Zaenkert
A firm in Ohio prospers by developing innovative designs such as magnetic nails to supplement its line of surveying equipment and supplies.
- Weathering the Storm: B2B Works by Chad Boyd
A surveying equipment distributor finds that forging newfangled relationships with other businesses has helped it not only survive the weak economy but grow dramatically.
- The Next Generation: Life- and Profession-Changing Experiences by Ashley Rose-Nalin
Many surveying companies are struggling right now and the job search may not be an easy one.
- Conference Recap: Intergeo 2008 by Roosmarijn Haring and Boukje Vreman
More Knowledge and Action for Planet Earth
- Business Angle: Brainstorming: Team-Based Problem Solving by Jeff Salmon
How to think within a group without dissolving into "group-think."
- Gigglebytes: You Might be a Surveyor if ... by David A. Mann
A Yankee Perspective
- GIS: The Greater Extent: Don’t Let the Map Fool You by J. Allison Butler
The maps created by surveyors, GIS users, CAD technicians, and photogrammetrists are relatively similar in appearance but can be very different in their manner of production.
- Stories from the "E"-Files: What Permit? by Stephen Estopinal
- Second Thoughts: A Roman Boundary Dispute by Wilhelm A. Schmidt
- Guest Editorial: NGS Expands its Role in Real-Time Network Positioning. by William Henning
- Northern Lights: The Offshore Area by Jean Gagnon
A frontier in expansion for the land surveyor.
- Intersect: How Do You Get Drafted by a Winning Team? by Janet Jackson and Randy Rambeau, Sr.
2 Professionals; 2 Opinions; 2 Points of View
- Surveying the Capitol: Levee Protection Legislation Lingers in Congress by Laurence Socci
- Around the Globe: Learning Surveying, Singapore Style by Sook Yee Loh
- History Corner: Historical Look at the Surveying Merit Badge by Daniel F. Rittel
Part 1: 1911-1960
- People, Products, Places