Sometimes all you can do is shake your head and wonder. While reviewing a rural survey recently, my "oh, my" alarm went off in my head. The current survey made reference to two prior surveys within the same aliquot part of a PLSS section. Surve...

Sometimes all you can do is shake your head and wonder. #Surveying #RuralDevelopment #DataAnalysis #SurveyLife #Geospatial

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#LandSurveying #SurveyLife #Surveyor #Geodesy #GIS #ControlPoint #Benchmark #Geomatics #Mapping #EO #30DayMapChallenge #Earthquake

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Check out these fascinating survey benchmarks! One of them is from 1941. Land surveying is always one of the coolest fields.
Thanks Julie.
#LandSurveying #SurveyLife
#Surveyor #Geodesy #GIS
#ControlPoint #Benchmark
#Geomatics #Mapping

What's the weirdest thing found while surveying? This (from 2020) is probably the top of my list of weird things encountered while surveying. It appears to be fiberglass and it's just sitting on top of the ground, nothing underground at al...

ICYMI: What's the weirdest thing found while surveying? #Surveying #WeirdFinds #SurveyLife #Fiberglass #UniqueDiscoveries

Thor loves it when surveys take us to the seaside ☺️

#surveylife #ecology #batsurveys #Campbeltown #Mullofkintyre

First light in a frosty atmosphere ❄️ with red grouse in the background 🦃 #birdwatching #surveylife

Some days my job is more related to archeology that mathematics and today is one of days.
#surveylife #workskeet

Who wants to help me with a least square adjustment of a cadastral model based on old portion plans from the late 1800s ?
#workskeet #surveylife

The history in these old plans is always fascinating. The survey date is 1904 so re-establishing the boundaries to any degree of accuracy is going to be a challenge.
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Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site (Published 2014) The device slipped off the belt of a worker 50 stories above and fell about 400 feet before striking and killing Gary Anderson, 58.

Todays WHS lesson.
The chance of being killed by a tape measure are low but never zero.
#surveylife

www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/n...

Lekking on a warm June afternoon. Remind me again why we get up in the dark in the spring?! 🤨 #blackgrouse #surveylife