[Cz-engineering] An introduction and some initial questions.

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Howard,

It is great to hear from you! I would definitely be interested in the
articles on geospatial intelligence and measurements. I will see if I
can take a look at them today on my lunch break.

I think our topics may have some overlap with the geography, math, and
computer science work groups, so I subscribed to those mailing lists
as well.

I wonder if you would be willing to do a quick review of my "land
surveying" entry, when I complete it?

Thanks,

Landon

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Howard C. Berkowitz <hcb at netcases.net> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cz-engineering-bounces at mail.citizendium.org [mailto:cz-engineering-
>> bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Sunburned Surveyor
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:06 PM
>> To: cz-engineering at mail.citizendium.org
>> Subject: [Cz-engineering] An introduction and some initial questions.
>>
>> I've just been approved as a rookie author for Citizendium. I'd like
>> to start my contributions with some articles on land surveying and
>> mapping, since that is my profession/trade. I had a couple of
>> questions to get started:
>>
>> - I noted that the PLSS article is currently a stub.
>> (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System) Are there
>> any objections to my expanding that article?
>> - I didn't see an entry for Land Surveying or Geomatics. If there is
>> not an article for land surveying, then I would like to create one
>> under the heading "Land Surveying". How would I link to this article
>> from a "Geomatics" heading?
>> - Are there any other land surveyors or mapping professionals that
>> participate in the engineering working group? (I subscribed to the
>> geography working group as well.)
>> - Can we add "Land Surveying" as one of the engineering disciplines
>> listed here: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Engineering_Workgroup ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Landon
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>
> Well welcome! I'm absolutely delighted to see activity on the workgroup list, which has
> been very inactive. Chemical engineering has some very active people, but other
> disciplines have been pretty idle.
>
> I've simply not run into geomatics as a term before, although it makes perfectly good
> sense.
>
> Let me answer you indirectly. I'm not a surveying/mapping specialist per se, but I have
> done a good deal of work with intelligence systems, and also, these days, with marine
> navigation and some resource sensing. May I suggest you look at several articles that
> might not have caught your eye:
>
> *Geospatial intelligence
> *Measurement and signature intelligence (lots of subarticles)
>
> Not only do I not object to expanding PLSS, how can someone not expert help?  Landon, this
> is a very welcome message, as I have been more and more frustrated with the lack of
> collaborative activity in areas where I have been writing.  Any glimmerings of life help
> me stick around.
>
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