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The Inca had a pretty decent engineering department:

http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/0101feat.html

Amazing that they had no written language, but do all that.
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Map of the counties dating quite a ways back:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/

The search by map works, but I got nothing returned on simply searching for my last name in the following:

"Oxford County, South Norwich Twnshp, Norwich"

........so I think that it may have a problem as, well, they were a few people in the area with my last name :lol:

Combine this with my Oxford County GIS link and you can see the differences that have occurred over the years along with a photogrammetric overlay.
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Lawyer/journalist with a bunch of articles that relate to survey's:

http://www.aaron.ca/columns/toronto-star-index.htm

Some of them highlight why when buying, a survey is better than title insurance.
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What happens when city revenue gets combined with traffic engineering and red lights?

http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/11/1550231.shtml

Shorter yellow lights to catch people to pay the city and cause more accidents. Red light cameras are a money grab--safety, my @rse.
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Relating to the Remote Sensing field:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12159

New satellites to map the oceans.
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Some pretty cool examples of engineering in China:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12358

Nifty buildings to say the least.
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Fluid studies might have a whole new avenue opened up to them:

http://www.dailytech.com/MIT+Discovers+ ... e13067.htm
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What happens when the computer from the 70's goes down that controls the traffic lights in Maryland:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05 ... ?art_pos=9


Utter gridlock.
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Excellent use of space and architecture:

http://videosift.com/video/Living-in-sm ... -apartment
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Beavers build dam wider than the Hoover:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05 ... art_pos=10
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These airports must have been fun to design:

http://amazingdata.com/the-most-dangero ... rt-runway/
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A website for surveyors and engineers:

http://www.rpls.com/home
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$16 gets you a $300 000 house in Texas:

http://www.geekosystem.com/16-dollar-house/

Here's to squatter's rights.
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The Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia is set to become the world's tallest tower:

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/04/sa ... dom-tower/
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What is with these middle eastern countries building giant phallic towers?
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