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Please save Thursday, February 16 and Tuesday, February 21 for the "Lobby Day" training webinar. NSPS members already registered or planning to attend the 3rd Annual National Surveying, Mapping, and Geospatial Conference March 13-17 in Silver Spring, MD are encouraged to participate in one of the webinars. Both webinars are scheduled from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm EST. The webinars will help educate and train NSPS members on the logistics involved with the March 15th "Lobby Day" as well as provide background on three issues surveying, mapping, and geospatial professionals will take to Congress: 1) Flood Map and National Flood Insurance Program Reform, 2) 3) Infrastructure, and 3) Private Sector Utilization.
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Make your hotel reservations TODAY at the Sheraton Hotel in Silver Spring, MD for the NSPS-MAPPS National Surveying, Mapping and Geospatial Conference. For the rate of $169 (single) per night, be sure to make your reservation before Monday, Feb. 13. Check out the conference website for program information in registration.
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"I thought I was going over to the Governor's office for another meeting," said Vollmer, who at age 99 has been a field surveyor in the Department of Natural Resources Division of Engineering for 54 years. "Whenever there's a new governor, they always do something for longtime employees and give them a pencil or something," he said. "I got into the office, and the meeting was for me. There wasn't anyone else there. I still didn't know it would be this."
The Sagamore of the Wabash is the highest civilian award bestowed by an Indiana governor.
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Originally published February 2017 in Survey Notes Newsletter by California Land Surveyors Association, San Diego Chapter:
A nationally recognized four-level certification program for surveying and mapping technicians offered by the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), the Certified Survey Technician (CST) program provides objectives for improvement and advancement for field and office positions, and gives important and needed recognition to the Survey Technicians in the Public and Private sectors. The program uses "work elements" to define the testing parameters such as; Survey History, Types of Surveys, Field Equipment and Instruments, Field Operations, Survey Computations, Horizontal and Vertical Control Points, Plan Reading and Prep, First Aid and Safety, Principles of the Profession, Office Operations, Supervisory Skills, etc. It is recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor as part of the National Apprenticeship Program.
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As noted previously in NSPS News & Views, Gary Kent's offer was accepted for him to participate in judging the responses to the HeroX "challenge" to streamline the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey process. As a result, Gary recently provided to his fellow judges what was referred to by a HeroX facilitator as a "phenomenal overview of Land Title Surveys." Gary's overview can be viewed from this NSPS website link.
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Paula Dijkstra, a Regional Manager at Kadaster International (Netherlands) was among those featured by xyHt magazine's 2017 Forty under 40. She and coworker Eric Hagemans will join host Curt Sumner for a conversation about Kadaster as organizations, and its role and responsibility; Surveying procedures in the Netherlands; what is a Driving Judge; and developments and innovations in cadastral work.
To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
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Earlier this week, Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) introduced the Flood Insurance Integrity Act, H.R. 879. In remarks delivered in the House of Representatives, Rep. Bilirakis said the bill will ensure accountability and transparency when it comes to calculating flood insurance rates, including through a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to make sure flood insurance maps are updated. FEMA NFIP flood map reform is one of the issues NSPS members will take to Capitol Hill on March 15, 2017 during the 3rd Annual National Surveying, Mapping and Geospatial Conference set from March 13-18 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Debate on fulfillment of President Trump's campaign promise to develop a $1 trillion infrastructure program to rebuild America's roads, bridges and other assets is heating up in Washington, DC with attention focused on whether projects will be delivered through tax financing, direct Federal contracts, or grants to states. When NSPS members go to Capitol Hill for "Lobby Day" on March 15, 2017 during the 3rd Annual National Surveying, Mapping and Geospatial Conference set from March 13-18 in Silver Spring, Maryland, infrastructure and the role of surveying and mapping will be an issues for discussion with Congress.
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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week favorably reported H.R. 679, the "Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act" as amended., to the full House of Representatives. Sponsored by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), section 3 of the bill improves the manner in which Federal contracts for design and construction services are awarded as part of design-build procurement, and section 4 prohibits the use of reverse auctions for design and construction services procurement, including surveying and mapping. Both reforms have long been championed by NSPS and the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services (COFPAES), of which NSPS is a member. To view the debate on H.R. 679 during the markup session, watch the segment from 30:10-33:20.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit www.nsps.us.com for details.
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Did you know that having CSTs on staff enhances the credibility of your organization?
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NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd met earlier this week with Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI). Prior to his election to Congress, Mitchell dedicated much of his career to workforce training, serving the State of Michigan, the Chrysler Corporation, and ultimately as CEO of Ross Education. Serving his first term from the 10th Congressional District of Michigan, he was appointed to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In addition, his new Republican colleagues selected him as the Freshman Representative to the GOP House Leadership.
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"Welcome to the Flood Zone" is a nationally distributed resource for those interested in flood zone issues, land surveying, real estate, history, and educational opportunities.
View our monthly newsletter, "Welcome to the Flood Zone."
Inside GNSS
Spirent Communications plc's annual security forecast warns of the increased likelihood of disruptions this year to a wide variety of civil and military applications relying on global navigation satellite systems — GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou.
The prediction of greater risk from hacking and location spoofing attacks by criminal, state-sponsored, and other adversaries is part of Spirent's annual security forecast.
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Lonnie Sears' passion for surveying began when he took a surveying class while studying engineering at West Virginia Tech. "I am an outdoorsman and didn't want to sit at a desk my whole life," he recalls. After college, he worked as a surveyor at a series of companies, the last moving him to Atlanta for Travis Pruitt & Associates. "Travis and I hit it off real well," Sears says.
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Directions Magazine
Wherever you look, mapping is impacting our lives. We see it in transport, where Google Maps is using data to let users know whether parking will be easy or limited at their destination, and Uber recently announced it has started to collect mapping data for drivers on Australia’s Gold Coast streets, to inform them of traffic patterns and precise pick-up/drop-off locations.
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By Lee Lovell, The American Surveyor
 Plato once expressed concerns that an information technology called writing might weaken a person's mind and cause trouble in the community. His main concern was that this approach to knowledge transfer would be unable to validate whether understanding had been achieved. We know digital technology and automation has impacted surveyors. We are much more productive, and the results are more precise. However, there seems to be some loss of quality at the stage in the work where judgment is applied and decisions are made.
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