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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Relating to the Remote Sensing field:

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

New satellites to map the oceans.

Some pretty cool examples of engineering in China:

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

Nifty buildings to say the least.

Fluid studies might have a whole new avenue opened up to them:

http://www.dailytech.com/MIT+Discovers+ ... e13067.htm

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.

Excellent use of space and architecture:

http://videosift.com/video/Living-in-sm ... -apartment

Beavers build dam wider than the Hoover:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05 ... art_pos=10

These airports must have been fun to design:

http://amazingdata.com/the-most-dangero ... rt-runway/

A website for surveyors and engineers:

http://www.rpls.com/home

$16 gets you a $300 000 house in Texas:

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

Here's to squatter's rights.

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

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/04/sa ... dom-tower/

What is with these middle eastern countries building giant phallic towers?