- Editor's Desk by Marc Cheves
What Are We Going To Do?
- A Tale of Four Summits
Details of a university project involving simultaneous GPS observations on California's four tallest mountains.
- Right Versus Might by Marc Cheves
Story of one Latvian family's land struggle.
- Back to the Land in Latvia
A discussion of the effort to establish a cadastre in post-Soviet Latvia.
- Point to Point: Least Squares Boundary Analysis
A discussion of the value of analytical tools versus boundary retracement doctrine.
- Mather Air Field
Details of the revitalization of a California community following a survey of a former Air Force base.
- Marketing Tipz: Recharge Your Mind
Advice on using corporate retreats to stimulate creative thinking.
- Book Review: Longitude
A review of Dava Sobel's biography of John Harrison.
- Second Thoughts: Surveying Fees - Confessions of a Low Bidder by Wilhelm A. Schmidt
A discussion of the different factors involved in bidding for surveying jobs.
- Legal Notes: Subdivision and Planning Issues
A Supreme Court case involving uncompensated taking of property by an Oregon city.
- How to Choose a Service Bureau
Advice on discerning quality service bureaus from fly-by-night operations.
- Hands On: SMI plot
A review of SMI's drafting software for small survey jobs.
- Hands On: Magellan ProMARK X-CM
A review of Magellan's 10-channel continuous tracking GPS receiver.
- The Nature of Measurement: Part 8: Basic Statistical Analysis of Random Errors by Dr. Ben Buckner
Part 8 addresses the importance of measurement error testing.
- The Values of Wetlands: Definitions and Functions
A discussion of wetland characteristics and government efforts to protect them.
- Book Review: Undaunted Courage
A story of Meriwether Lewis's journey through the American West.
- AutoCAD Tips and Tricks: Metric Units in AutoCAD
A discussion of AutoCAD's capability to convert to and from metric units.
- Products, People, Places
- History Corner: The Surveyor's Telescopic Level: Part 1 by Silvio A. Bedini
A timeline of the evolution of the telescopic level during the 17th and 18th centuries.