Tag: Surveying

Geospatial Community Answers Call to Update Benchmarks

By Dick Kleinmann, PLS, and Mick Heberlein, PLS, PS, CFedS The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) rolled out a program in late 2020 asking surveyors to make GPS observations on existing benchmark monuments nationwide. The intent is to improve the vertical data model and tools that will facilitate transition to new 2022 datums. The effort will… Read More »

GIS Day is Cause for Celebration, and Here’s Why

Geographic information systems, or GIS, are the combination of geographical features and powerful databases. Municipal governments and local utilities rely on this technology to gather, manage, and analyze high-level spatial information. With today being GIS Day, it only seems fitting to discuss some of the ways GIS services meet clients’ everyday mapping needs and streamline… Read More »