As with all GPS technology, it has come a remarkably long way very quickly. And though it is still a long ways from being survey-grade acceptible in accuracy, it has an array of practical applications that are saving surveyors a lot of time and hassle.
Continue reading “Surveyor Spotlight: Roving GPS with the Carlson Supervisor”
Adam Hoffman and his wife recently visited Israel for the first time. Here are some of the photos from that fantastic trip.
Continue reading “The Traveling Surveyor – Volume 1 Israel”””
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| Photo courtesy of the New Haven Independent, taken by Markeshia Ricks. |
The 25th annual Salvation Army/WTIC Holiday Store donation drive was held on Christmas Eve this year and once again Hodge, LLC was part of this event.
This week (December 2014), using some of the most advanced camera and laser scanning technologies, “[a] bust of President Obama was created by a Smithsonian-led team of 3D-digital-imaging specialists, Autodesk and 3D Systems, in collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies” (whitehouse.gov).
Continue reading “Printing the President’s Face: 3D Scanning”
Continue reading “Connecticut Bar Association – Construction Documentation”
All of us here at Godfrey-Hoffman, Associates and Hodge, LLC thank you for being our valued customers over the years, and feel grateful for the pleasure of serving you and meeting your surveying and engineering needs.
We hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving as much as these two WWI soldiers did when they got home!
With heavy mechanical instruments, surveyors laid out the border between North and South Carolina several hundred years ago. Vast sections of the border went through thick forests or open farm fields. Hence, at the time, it made sense to mark the border with notches in trees made with hatchets and the occasional rock pile. Since that time of course, those trees and even many of the rocks are no longer there.
Not knowing the exact location of the border wasn’t an issue for a long time; the area between the Carolinas was prodominantly rural. But now, with sharp increases in development, the states and property owners need to know; where exactly is the border?
Continue reading “Surveyors to Fix Border between North and South Carolina”