- Editor's Desk by Marc Cheves
Opening Session at the 21st FIG Congress in Brighton, England
- Application: GPS Goes to the Top of the World
Details of the role of Trimble Navigation's GPS equipment in the May 1998 expedition to the summit of Mount Everest.
- Feature: Why Does WMATA Require NSPS/ACSM Certified Survey Technicians?
A look at the quest of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to find qualified surveyors.
- Guest Editorial: The New Wave from California
Discussion of California's recently defeated Proposition 224.
- Feature: The 500-foot Tape
Story of one survey crew's trials and tribulations with a cumbersome chain.
- Guest Editorial: The Modern Surveyor and the GIS Industry: Debunking the Myths
Discussion of why surveyors should get into GIS.
- Point to Point: Who're You Calling an Artist?
Response to the philosophical view of surveying as an art.
- Hands On: Carlson Survey
Review of Carlson Software's surveying application.
- Second Thoughts: Minor Engineering by Wilhelm A. Schmidt
Explanation of the issues surrounding practice overlap, particularly between surveyors and civil engineers in a few Eastern U.S. states.
- CADD Tips and Tricks: Using External Reference Drawings: Part 1
Part 1 of 2 a discussion of the advantages of and practical hints for using external reference drawings in AutoCAD.
- Hands On: InRoads Survey
Review of Intergraph's data collecting/processing software.
- Letters to the Editor
- The Nature of Measurement: Part 10: Achieving Accuracy in Distances
Advice on how not to overlook possible sources of error in distance measurements.
- Products, People, Places Part 1
- Products, People, Places Part 2
- History Corner: Captain Thomas Hutchins: Part 2, Geographer of the United States by Silvio A. Bedini
Part 2 of 2 about the adventures and accomplishments of a Revolutionary War surveyor and cartographer.