Surveying, Mapping and GIS

I am looking forward to going to the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors' 2008 Conference. It kicks off tomorrow in Hershey, PA... There I will catch up with some of my old surveying colleagues and friends, as well as ping them on many of the other things that I've been dealing with, such as work on updating the NCEES Model Law via their Uniform Procedures and Legislative Guidelines Committee (UPLG) and Continuing Professional Competency for Land Surveyors as recently introduced via legislation in Pennsylvania - and potentially subject to an updated legislative effort, as well as many of the other things I work toward, such as data standards and geodesy, and many other plates spinning and hats I wear.

I am presently wrapping up a weekend spent with the UPLG Committee in Florida - which again raises some of the questions of defining practice, as regulated by law - with particular, sensitive crossover issues in Surveying being GIS and Photogrammetry, but also Engineering and other fields.