Location: North Okanagan region and beyond

Qualifications: Diploma or Degree in a Geomatics program (preferred but not necessary), minimum 2 years experience in cadastral surveying

Remuneration: Will be competitive and based on experience/qualifications

Location: Nanaimo, BC

Qualification: Practicing BCLS with experience in land development, strata plans, air spaces, and fee simple subdivisions

Benefits: W&A offers excellent compensation and benefits with opportunities for advancement.

The National Job Bank has been designed by surveyors specifically for members of the Professional Surveyors Canada community. Complimentary posting of information to the National Job Bank is a benefit of membership.

La Banque d'emplois nationale a été conçue par des arpenteurs-géomètres spécifiquement pour les membres de Géomètres professionnels du Canada. L’affichage gratuit sur la banque d’emplois nationale constitue l’un des avantages de votre adhésion.

Wilson Phillips, PSC Director - Manitoba, joins the crew for a conversation on surveying in Manitoba, the future of the profession, and shared interests with our friends south of the border.

Listen to the podcast - click Episode 50.

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On this episode of "Future Focus" Curt Sumner is joined by Gretel Zwick. Gretel is an Assistant Project Manager for Accurate Infrastructure Data, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. She participates in the NSPS Young Surveyors Group and is a member of the NSPS Diversity Committee. They talk about her path to Surveying and her aspirations for the future.

Association of Ontario Land Surveyors

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) is proposing legislative changes. Read about them here in the letter from the Office of the Surveyor General of Ontario.

Here's the link to the complete bill:

Lesson, Skill Level 1:

National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

Description: With the common adoption of GNSS in land surveying, best practices have evolved with improving hardware and faster data processing. This lesson follows several surveyors as they work their way through projects, touching all aspects from initial planning up through field work. In the process they gather all the necessary data to begin processing that data.

Click here for the online lesson.

Yorkton This Week

The Town of Langenburg Council held its regularly scheduled council meeting, starting at 7:30 P.M. on October 6th.

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Councillor Tanner Hunt joined virtually and asked about property surveys. A homeowner had his home surveyed and wants to know if he can “put the pin in the ground”. It must be a 1’’ squared pin to be official, rebar does not do the trick. Carlos mentioned he didn’t know off-hand if putting the pin in was the surveyor's responsibility or if he was allowed to. Administrator Lemcke made a note that it is illegal to move a properly-placed survey pin. The homeowner will need to contact the surveyor to determine the proper responsibility for the placement. Read more

The Wellington Advertiser

The last day to visit a land registry office in person in Ontario is Oct. 9, as the service is moving to a digital model.

“Effective [Oct. 13], the Ontario government will be discontinuing land registration counter services at all 54 Land Registry Offices (LROs),” states a letter from Examiner of Surveys sent to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors in July.

“This means that October 9, 2020 is the last day LROs will be open to the public.” Read more

Centre de recherche en données et intelligence géospatiales

Université Laval

Où en est rendu la recherche ? Quelles sont les avantages à visualiser les données cadastrales en 3D ? Quels défis restent-ils à relever ?

Vous apprendrez tout ceci en lisant cet article, paru dans le no. d’hiver 2020 de la revue Géomatique de l’Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec. Lire plus

the American Surveyor

Rome, NY- Drone Surveying technology is become more widespread in surveying, engineering, and construction industries. Volumetric measurement, topographic mapping, progress tracking and pre-construction survey are just a few of the applications where drone photogrammetry can provide much more efficient results. Therefore, many businesses in these industries are no longer asking if they should invest in drone technology, but when.

To help answer this question, Microdrones is hosting a Wednesday Webinar: “Should I Invest in Drone Photogrammetry,” Wednesday, October 28th, 9:00AM EST or 6:00PM EST. Read more

GISuser

19 October 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the draft Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) before seeking adoption as a Community Standard. This draft standard was originally developed and submitted to OGC by Apple. Comments are due by November 18, 2020.

OGC Members Apple, Autodesk, Esri, Google, New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT), Ordnance Survey Limited, and Safe Software support the submission. Read more

GitHub

The official repository for #30DayMapChallenge, It is a daily mapping/cartography/data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community.

The idea is to create (and publish) maps based on different themes on each day of the month using the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge, You can prepare the maps beforehand, but the main idea is to publish maps from specific topics on specific days listed below. Just include a picture of the map when you post to Twitter with the hashtag. You don't have to sign up anywhere to participate. There are no restrictions on the tools, technologies and the data you use in your maps. Doing less than 30 is also fine (and actually doing all 30 is really hard!). See the code of conduct at the bottom of the page.

Happy mapping!

Federal Register

The Daily Journal of the United States Government

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have taken collaborative action to provide national uniformity in the measurement of length. This notice announces the final decision to deprecate use of the “U.S. survey foot” on December 31, 2022. Read more

Geospatial World

There are billions of sensors collecting data everywhere on Earth, and hundreds of earth observation satellites monitoring the health of the planet. Miniaturisation of electronics enables the production of increasingly smaller payloads for cubesats, drones and ground-based monitoring systems. Meanwhile, cloud-based computing is providing the computational power to experiment with new business models, making geospatial data available via platforms in near real-time.

Geospatial insight is a key piece of information to enable the autonomous and connected world we are building today. Read more

Message from Stewart Ward, NSPS Director, Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors

NSPS Newsletter October 15, 2020

In June, NSPS formed our ad-hoc committee to discuss diversity within the surveying profession, and to explore ways that we can attract more people from diverse backgrounds into it. We began with several interviews on the NSPS podcast “Surveyor Says” where Surveyors from diverse backgrounds discuss their pathway to surveying, the challenges they faced, and barriers they broke. Episodes 20, 40, 41, and 47 in the Future Focus series are of particular interest. Listen here: scroll to episode 20, 40, 41 or 47.

Updated October 8, 2020

On April 20, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously approved an application by Ligado Networks LLC (Ligado) to “deploy a low-power [9.8 decibel watts(dBW)] terrestrial nationwide network in the 1526-1536 MHz, 1627.5-1637.5 MHz, and 1646.5-1656.5 MHz bands [of the electromagnetic spectrum] that will primarily support Internet of Things (IoT) services. ”These frequency bands are traditionally used for satellite operations. The Department of Defense (DOD) opposed this decision—along with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Interior, Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA), and others. That opposition related to concerns that Ligado’s proposed network could interfere with signals from satellites to Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Read more

Albany Herald

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration has released the NOAA OER Deepwater Exploration Mapping Procedures Manual to describe the office’s approach to deepwater ocean exploration acoustic mapping. OER is sharing this manual as a contribution to broader cross-agency efforts to develop standard ocean mapping protocols and to serve as a guide for other interested public and private entities conducting deepwater mapping and exploration. Read more

The Advocate

Burnie's Brian Rollins has spent the last 35 years "time travelling", slowly rediscovering a forgotten, treacherous road in the heart of the North-West.

The road is the very same carved by famous explorer and surveyor, Henry Hellyer for the Van Diemen's Land Company, twisting a strange path over hundreds of kilometres from Circular Head through to Launceston. Read more

Hydro International

Ultrabeam Hydrographic, a hydrographic survey company, recently teamed up with Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS) to conduct two subsea gas pipeline inspection surveys in Northern Ireland. Both companies are based in the UK and offer unmanned platforms as an alternative to traditional manned survey vessels. Read more

Nevada Today

In February 2017, on the corner of Virginia and 15 th Streets, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Hao Xu installed a roadside LiDAR sensor — and made history. While these devices had been widely used in other applications before — including autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles — this installation at an entrance to the University of Nevada, Reno is believed to be the first time a LiDAR sensor had been used roadside to facilitate the development of smarter, safer transportation infrastructure. Read more

ZDNet

MindManager is a venerable desktop application that's now owned by Corel and moving to a subscription model. Its latest incarnation comprises MindManager Windows 21, MindManager Mac 13 and MindManager Enterprise, and mixes new features with more integrations for using mind maps for collaboration, including inside Microsoft Teams.

Mind mapping is a technique for brainstorming ideas and organising information that's connected but doesn't fit neatly into an outline or a slide deck. Read more

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