- Editor's Desk: GIS: A Symbiotic Relationship by Tom Gibson
- Letters to the Editor
- Cartoon: Out of Plumb by Chase Perryman
- Feature: Riding the Wild West
Motorized vehicles aren't allowed in rugged part of eastern Oregon due to fire hazards. So how do surveyors get around there? Two brothers describe how they do it on horseback.
- Features: Technologies Combine for Energy
Developed areas present challenges in alignment planning for a natural gas pipeline in Texas. The solution: combining GIS data management with conventional surveying technologies such as RTK GPS
- Feature: Business Leader
Warner Allen, President, Allen Precision Equipment, Inc.
- Aerial Perspective: Buying Guide for Off-the-Shelf Topographic Data
- Software Review: Cadastral Editor
- Book Review: Surveying: Theory and Practice, by James M. Anderson & Edward M. Mikhail by Wilhelm A. Schmidt
- Business Angle: Website Optimization by Jeff Salmon
An optimized website is a cost-effective marketing tool for your survey shop.
- Northern Lights: Brampton Surveyors Connect for Powerful Productivity
- GIS: The Greater Extent: Building an Enterprise GIS
A glimpse into a GIS done by a planning organization in Houston, Texas shows what happens with survey data.