Article: Where does surveying go from here?(thebusinessside)(Column)

I have been involved with surveying my whole life.

I've gone from sitting under a tree and calculating distances with a pad of paper and Peter's sine and cosine tables while laying out a subdivision to using the most modern total stations and GPS equipment. I've served as president of a state surveying society and as a member of the board of directors of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. I've authored many different sets of standards and regulations in an effort to improve the quality of surveyors and survey work. I feel like no one could love our profession more than I do.

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