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A Message from Professional Surveyors Canada
Professional Surveyors Canada
Dear Horizon Readers,
Welcome to Horizon’s new look, we hope you enjoy it. Beginning with this issue Horizon will be published on a monthly basis. If you haven’t yet read PSC’s January Quarterly report you can read it
here as well as other
reports and position papers.
Professional Surveyors Canada
Un message de Géomètres professionnels du Canada
Géomètres professionnels du Canada
Chers lecteurs d’Horizon, Bienvenue au nouveau look d’Horizon. Nous espérons que vous l’apprécierez. À compter du présent numéro, Horizon sera publié mensuellement. Si vous n’avez pas encore lu le rapport trimestriel de janvier de GPC, vous pouvez le faire
ici, ainsi que d’autres
rapports et exposés de position. Nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos
commentaires ou questions.
Géomètres professionnels du Canada
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The Hans Klinkenberg Memorial Scholarship
Canadian Institute of Geomatics
The Hans Klinkenberg Memorial Scholarship Fund provides scholarships to students in the
geomatics sciences at technical institutes and community colleges in Canada. Students may apply prior to February 15 of each year as outlined in the description and application form available on the
CIG website.
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In the Media / Dans les médias
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Vantage Point: In and Out of the Box
the American Surveyor
We seem to live in a world defined by boxes, being either inside or outside of them.
Most of the time we hear that we should think outside the box more frequently, but there are positives and negatives for either side of the walls. On the one hand, we want to stay within our expertise and avoid extending our liability. On the other, we severely limit our personal and professional growth if we don't try anything new.
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C’est à Moncton où l’accès à la propriété est la plus abordable au pays
Acadie Nouvelle
Selon une nouvelle étude publié par l’Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
L’étude réalisée en collaboration avec la firme américaine Demographia et Frontier Centre for Public Policy, de Winnipeg, révèle qu’aucun autre grand centre au pays n’est plus abordable lorsque vient le temps pour une famille de la classe moyenne d’acheter une maison.
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Mackenzie Village development expected to go on sale by end of February
Revelstoke Review
The first phase of the Mackenzie Village development in Arrow Heights is expected to go up for sale towards the end of February, says the developer.
"We're looking to finalize pricing in the middle or end of February and then launch at that time," said David Evans.
David and Shelley Evans, along with RE/MAX Revelstoke, held an open house to showcase the new development at the Mackenzie Village info centre on Thursday. The invite was directed towards media, bankers, mortgage lenders, property managers, and city council and staff.
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I Think I Will Never See A Tree That Cannot Be—Part 2
the American Surveyor
One of my last jobs as a contract administrator for the U.S. Forest Service was the administration of a 500-mile and 2,000-corner boundary retracement. One of the contract requirements was the creation of new bearing or witness or pointer trees at each corner. This was not an urban survey: it was a rural retracement, with accuracy primary and precision secondary. These trees were to be identified by species and diameter with a bearing and distance from each monumented corner to the new tree. While in pre-contract discussions with the selected firm, not of my choosing, I stressed the importance of the proper identification of trees and why this provision was in the contract.
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Le risque immobilier persiste, dit la SCHL
Le Devoir
Les signes de conditions problématiques sur le marché canadien de l’habitation demeurent élevés pour un deuxième trimestre consécutif. L’alarme continue de sonner pour six des quinze régions métropolitaines.
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On 250th birthday, Survey of India wants to shed its cloak of secrecy
The Indian Express
India’s oldest scientific organisation, the Survey of India (SOI), was set up in 1767, 10 years before the world’s oldest democracy the US was even born! Americans were still fighting a bloody civil war when India’s official map maker started gathering geographical wisdom of the sub-continent. Working silently, hidden away from public discourse for so long, the agency now wants to be heard, become transparent and even seeks to climb the Mount Everest to assert its new found independence.
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Base Line Road’s history is connected to the Washington Monument (no, not that one)
Daily Bulletin News
Henry Washington and I recently had a brief encounter.
I occasionally volunteer at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands and was in a storage area when I stumbled into Henry Washington’s Monument, or at least a chunk of it.
A 4-foot-high piece of timber had broken off from the 23-foot spire originally erected in 1852 near the top of 10,649-foot San Bernardino Peak by Washington and his surveying crew.
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Linking Space Technology and User Needs
GIM International interviews Carlo des Dorides, Executive Director, GSA
GIM International
Space technology has a big influence on the transformation of the way we live, work and play. The core mission of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) is to ensure that European Union citizens get the most out of Europe’s satellite navigation programmes. In this in-depth interview GSA’s executive director, Mr Carlo des Dorides, talks about Galileo, EGNOS, Copernicus, UAVs, location-based services and much more.
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Construction: une année record à Moncton
Acadie Nouvelle
L’année 2016 en aura été une record pour la ville de Moncton en terme de développement économique. La valeur totale des permis de construction attribués au cours de la dernière année a atteint près de 242 millions $.
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Century-old surveyor's tool finds a home at Loveland
SaukValley.com
DIXON – The lens Orval Gearhart peered through nearly a century ago revealed a much different picture of the city seen today.
Lugging around his engineer's transit, which is a universal instrument for surveyors with a spyglass apparatus mounted to a tripod, Gearhart designed a gravel road connecting Dixon to Rochelle in the 1930s – what is now state Route 38.
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An Open Platform for Documenting Property Rights
GIM International
A functioning land administration sector is the foundation of a national economy, critical for economic growth. Unfortunately, effective land registry and cadastral systems with national coverage exist in only a fraction of the world’s countries. Without accurate information regarding land rights, many development goals – food security, sustainable resource management, climate change mitigation and equal rights to property for women – remain impossible to achieve, not to mention the potential for conflict when rights are not recognised and enforced.
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Tech News / Nouvelles techno
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Forget flying cars — passenger drones are the future
Crunch Network
In the July 1924 issue of Popular Science, “Ace of Aces” fighter pilot E.V. Rickenbacker told readers to expect “Flying Autos in 20 Years.” Rickenbacker’s flying car would have retractable 12.5-foot wings, a sea-worthy hull and wheels to cruise America’s growing network of highways.
Ninety-three years later, personal cars remain land-bound. But Rickenbacker’s car-like plane still dominates our idea of what a flying car should be. That expectation — ingrained in decades of pop culture and copied by real technologists — has held back innovation.
The winning “flying car” is going to be a passenger drone,...
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Pushing Lidar to the Limits
High-resolution Bathymetric Lidar from Slow-flying Aircraft
GIM International
Airborne bathymetric Lidar is an ideal tool to study underwater features in the usually rather clear waters along the coast of Australia. Due to the remoteness of many of the continent’s coastlines, this is often the only economically viable option for large-scale bathymetric mapping at high resolution.
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Upcoming Events / Prochaines activités
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March 1-2, 2017 Le 1-2 mars 2017
Shaw Centre, Ottawa, ON
March 7, 2017 Le 7 mars 2017
Paramount Conference Center
Woodbridge, ON
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Horizon
Horizon is brought to you as an information service only. Articles are selected from relevant geomatics issues currently in the news and do not necessarily represent the views or priorities of Professional Surveyors Canada. Professional Surveyors Canada is not responsible for the content or pop-ups featured on third-party websites hyperlinked from this news brief. Web links and the content featured may change without notice. If you choose to access these links, you do so at your own risk.
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