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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. This newsletter has been proudly featured by the Association of State Floodplain Managers, the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and the Maine and New Hampshire Floodplain Management Programs.
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NSPS Foundation
To add insult to injury, it's not bad enough that the recovery from Hurricane Florence is just beginning; now Hurricane Michael, a Category 4 hurricane with 145 MPH sustained winds, is slamming Florida. It will also hit Georgia and dump more torrential rain on the Carolinas! The news media has lost interest in Florence as Michael has taken over the headlines; however, the survivors of both storms are just starting to realize what lies ahead!
Because of the current Hurricanes and Wildfires last fall, the Disaster Relief Funds resources are severely depleted! Your fellow surveyors who are victims of the recent Southeast storms and the Western Wildfires need your help now! The grant requests will start coming in just as they did last year! What do you want "Your Foundation" to tell those victims?
The Foundation wants to be there for them, but we need your donations to do it! We need your help now!
NSPS Directors: Please go to your affiliate and ask for a donation. State Affiliates, please stand up and do what you can! Thanks to the New Jersey Society for its recent generous donation of $5,000.00.
I know that not all of us can't donate that amount, but please give what you can. If we all did that, the Disaster Relief Fund would be able to assist the current victims, and prepare for the next disaster.
Thanks, too, to all of the individuals who have stepped up. "God Bless" you all!
Please send your donations to NSPS headquarters and mark them for the Disaster Relief Fund on your checks. You never know when you may need for that next check to be sent to you!
NSPSF, Inc. is a 501 c (3) organization, so your donations are tax deductible and the rewards are worth so much more.
Thank you for your anticipated generosity!
Joe Dolan, PLS, NSPS Past President
NSPS Foundation Disaster Relief Page — https://www.nsps.us.com/page/DisasterRelief
Link to Guidelines
Link to Disaster Relief Form
New Mexico Professional Surveyors
An excerpt from a recent article in the Albuquerque Journal states that, "Professionals in certain occupations could practice without a state license if they have consumer consent, under an executive order signed by Governor Susana Martinez ... " The Governor's Executive Order states that "boards" and "commissions" affected include the State Board of Licensure for Engineers and Professional Surveyors.
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President Trump signed into law a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that includes numerous unrelated provisions, such as the Geospatial Data Act.
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Join host Curt Sumner and his guest Rich Radke for a discussion about SurveyStars — software solutions for operating a better Surveying businesses!
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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On October 3, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on positive train control (PTC). Witnesses from Amtrak, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Government Accountability Office (GAO) and New Jersey Transit testified. Members urged witnesses to have PTC operational on their lines by the December 31, 2018 deadline. Questions focused on challenges with efforts to implement PTC and when witnesses expected PTC to be fully implemented. Click here to view the archived webcast of the hearing.
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NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd recently met with Ross Spano (R), a candidate for a U.S. House of Representatives in the 15th district of Florida. This is an open seat caused by the retirement of current Rep. Dennis Ross (R). As a State Representative, Ross has been a consistent voice for families and small businesses, advocating for less regulation, lower taxes, higher paying jobs and safer communities.
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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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The Preamble of the CST Program Board Policies states, in part, "Technicians fill positions which
require specialized knowledge and skill in one or more of the broad fields of surveying and mapping."
Shouldn't that knowledge be quantified through certification?
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On Wednesday, October 10, the U.S. Senate approved House amendments to accompany S.3021, the American Water Infrastructure Act (formerly know as the Water Resources Development Act or WRDA), clearing the measure for President Trump's signature. AWIA, which funds projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and other agencies), together with the Federal Aviation Authorization (FAA), and the FY 18 Omnibus Appropriations constitute the infrastructure program President Trump promoted in the 2016 campaign, along with a Highway bill that will be reauthorized in the next Congress, when the current law expires in 2020.
Next Big Future
One of the industries we don't often associate with disruptive technology is cartography. Mentioning the term cartographer conjures up images of Ptolemy and Eratosthenes creating some of the earliest visualizations of geography. Just because we've come a long way since the days of Ptolemy's Geographia in 150 AD doesn't mean that we're done improving the way we understand and collect data in the world.
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GPS World
Are we there? In a multi-GNSS world, that is. We've asked that question from time to time in this column over the years. So, are we there yet? That depends. One definition of "multi" is more than one. In this sense, we were in a multi-GNSS world as long ago as 1996. In that year, we had two fully populated constellations of satellites: GPS and GLONASS. Unfortunately, the full GLONASS constellation was short-lived.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: attending the Commercial UAV Expo is the closest you'll get to drinking out of a fire hose, data-stream-wise, without incurring physical damage. I'm talking metric tons of new and cool UAS stuff.
This year I had the honor to be included as a judge in the expo's first ever "Pitch the Press" event. Forty nine exhibitors registered to have their company's products and services judged by a team of journalists.
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Geospatial World
The ease-of-use of mobile apps like Google Maps and Strava has inspired a lot of companies to start thinking differently about location technology. Consequently, many IT professionals are being asked, and discovering how, to create location-based applications.
"IT is now being required to build spatially-aware or enabled applications, without a history of working with these technologies," says Clarence Hempfield, vice president of location intelligence at Pitney Bowes.
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