Making the leap from the high school classroom to the tertiary learning environment can be daunting. For one thing, there many differences between these two worlds. Additionally, at a tertiary level you are choosing just one or two specialist areas to focus your study efforts on. Until you’re attending your first week of university of…
By the 21st century, the name Disney has become so synonymous entertainment and childhood escapism that the cliched idea for the perfect holiday destination is, “Disneyland”. Disneyland and all the other associated Disney Parks around the world have many things in common. They all celebrate the characters and stories of Walt Disney’s cartoons and films….
A global pandemic can’t keep surveyors down! For a profession that offers its workers such a wide variety of working environments – from indoors in the office to construction sites, rural areas, sea vessels and more – it isn’t surprising to see surveyors stepping back outdoors the first moment that they can. This goes just…
Surveying’s inpact on Australia can be measured all around us. Even on this website you can see just how inportant surveying has been in building Australia and the world up. In the past, it’s helped determine our state lines. Today, one of its many roles is to help determine property boundaries. In the future, it…
Here on this very website, we describe surveying as, “the measurement and mapping of our surrounding environment using mathematics, specialised technology and equipment”. But where does that leave alien environments? The surveyors of yesteryear were explorers of a kind, discovering foreign lands and mapping them as they went. Those documents proved invaluable records of our…
At the start of the year, very few of us would have predicted that we would be spending much of March and nearly all of April indoors. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the landscape right across the world. Of course, the knock-on effect of the necessary shutdown is that industries of all types are thrown…
Making surveying study look easy Surveying seems to attract people with drive, passion and verve. Georgia Moore is no exception. The RMIT student already has two surveying and spatial science qualifications under her belt, and she’s heading for a third. Not before she’s managed to score not one, but two major awards for her dedication…
As clever and dedicated as surveying professionals are, they can’t do their jobs all alone. Ever since human beings developed the concept of land ownership, the surveyor has been there with equipment in hand to help determine land boundaries. You can read all about the ancient history of surveying technology here – and about its…
On November 28th, Advanced Mathematics students from grade 9, 10 and 11 at Norfolk Island Central School became honorary surveyors for a day. Norfolk Island was the site of the latest Maths in Surveying Day, an engaging, challenging event that puts maths students through their paces with a number of activities that show off the…
The silver screen is filled with heroic figures that hail from enviable professions. Army generals. Astronauts. Cops. Presidents. Surveyors. …Surveyors? That’s right. You might have missed the memo, but Hollywood has a long and illustrious career of sneaking surveying into the background – and sometimes foreground – of their blockbusters. In fact, some of the biggest stars…
