About Tim Burch
Tim Burch, GPS World’s co-contributing editor for survey, is director of Surveying at SPACECO Inc. in Rosemont, Illinois. He has been working as a professional land surveyor since 1985, and is the secretary, Board of Directors, National Society of Professional Surveyors.
Posts by Tim Burch
Open space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the professional surveyor and their crew. Their mission: to explore and survey strange new lands. To retrace old boundaries and... Read more»
Technology continues to develop and put more capability, data storage and ease of use into many professional’s hands, and surveyors are no different in their needs. Spatial data collection has... Read more»
As we close the book on 2019 and head into the next decade, much has changed during the 2010s and the 21st century. This article will focus on the technological... Read more»
A famous quote applies to almost everything in our lives: “There is nothing permanent except change.” This well-known saying is generally credited to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (500 B.C.E.), although... Read more»
Real-time network availability grows in appeal, extent State of the GNSS Industry respondents who identified themselves as being from the survey sector constituted 28% of the total, roughly corresponding to... Read more»
In what seems like just yesterday, GPS World published my article in the May 2017 issue of Survey Scene on the upcoming datum change by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS)... Read more»
The surveying profession has come to a crossroads, and is divided amongst itself to boot. A gap exists within the profession, and yes it is a generation gap, based on... Read more»
BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (BYOD) is not just an industry buzzword. It can change the way professional surveyors work every day. The idea of using a smartphone or tablet instead... Read more»
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