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Alaska Links

Alaska General

Fairbanks North Star Borough .....Home Borough (aka County) for this website
Weather Report .....Fairbanks, Alaska...Its not as bad as you'd think!

Alaska Federal Links

BLM Alaska Office
BLM/GLO Records Research...Including Alaska Patents
FAA - Alaska Region
USACE - Alaska District
USGS Alaska

Alaska Legal

Alaska Department of Law .....Newsletters (PDF format)
Alaska Court System .....Alaska Law Links
Alaska Legislature .....Search through Alaska Statutes, Administrative code, etc.
Alaska Legal Research ....University of Alaska Justice Center
Alaska Legal & Law links ....Rominger Legal
American Law Sources On-Line...Alaska
FindLaw: Alaska: Laws ....Complete set of links to Alaska Legal resources
Alaska Legal Resource Center .....Public legal resources
ANCSA .....Background on the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Alaska Law Review .....Alaska Legal Issues hosted by Duke Law School
Alaska Supreme Court Cases .....Search cases back to 1991
Anchorage Municipal Ordinances .....Including Platting & Zoning
Fairbanks North Star Borough Ordinances .....Including Platting & Zoning
Kenai Borough Code .....Including Platting & Zoning
Matanuska - Susitna Borough Ordinances .....Including Platting & Zoning

Alaska State Government

State of Alaska - Main Website
Alaska DCED Summaries .....Department of Community and Economic Development Database
Alaska Department of Transportation .....Airports, harbors, highways and other public facilities
Alaska Division of Occupational Licensing .....Licensing authority for Land Surveyors
Alaska Division of Occupational Licensing .....AELS Licensing Database (i.e. To search for licensed land surveyors in Fairbanks, input Board: "AEL"; License Type: "L"; City: "Fairbanks)
Department of Natural Resources .....Including the Division of Land
DNR RS2477 Page .....Historic Roads & Trails
State Employee Whitepages .....Search for the e-mail address of a State of Alaska employee

Alaska Surveying Consultants and Relevant Links

AeroMetric - Anchorage .....International Photogrammetric Consultants
Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse .....Alaska GIS Datasets
Alaska GPS Data .....The "unofficial" Alaska GPS Data Page (by Crazy Mountains Joint Venture)
Alaska Professional Design Council ...A coalition of Professional Design Organizations
Alaska Surveying & Mapping Conference ...Conference Website
WHPacific - Formerly ASTS/ASCG ....Engineers/Architects/Surveyors
BLM Division of Cadastral Survey ......BLM's Alaska Office
Design Alaska .....Engineers/Architects/Surveyors
DNR - Platting .....DNR Platting Requirements in the Unorganized Borough
Alaska DNR LRIS, Public Land Records ...View status plats and eventually surveys also.
DOWL ...Engineers & Surveyors
F. Robert Bell & Assoc./CMH Consultants .....Engineers/Surveyors
GeoNorth, Inc. .....GIS - Database - CAD
John Oswald & Assoc., LLC .....Hydrographic Surveyors
Kalen & Associates, Inc. .....Land & Construction Surveyors - Fairbanks, Alaska
Kodiak Mapping, Inc. .....Aerial Photography, Photogrammetry
Larsen Engineering, Inc. .....Engineers/Surveyors
Lounsbury & Associates, Inc. .....Engineers/Surveyors
LCMF, Inc. .....Surveyors & Engineers
McClintock Land Associates, Inc. ...Surveying, Planning, Mapping
McClane Consulting Group .....Kenai area Surveyors & Engineers
PDC Engineers .....Engineers & Surveyors
PN&D ... Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage
R&M Consultants, Inc. .....Engineers & Surveyors - Anchorage
R&M Engineering-Ketchikan, Inc. .....Engineers & Surveyors - Ketchikan
R&M Engineering-Juneau .....Engineers & Surveyors - Juneau
Sentec, Inc. .....Surveyors
Terra Surveys, LLC .....Hydrographic Survey Specialists
The Surveyors Exchange .....Surveying equipment sales and rentals
Tryck Nyman Hayes, Inc. .....Engineers & Surveyors
University of Alaska - Geomatics Department .....The best in Geomatics education!
USKH, Inc. .....Unwin, Scheben, Korynta, Huettel - Engineers/Architects/Surveyor
VEI Consultants .....Engineers & Surveyors

Control Surveys/GPS Sites

Coast Guard Navigation Center
Coordinates, Datums & Transformations
Current Solar Forecast .....Space Environment Laboratory
Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee
GPS World Online .....GPS World Magazine
Oregon GPS Users Website .....Good source info for the practicing surveyor
Principles and Practice of GPS Surveying....SNAP! Satellite Navigation and Positioning Group

Federal Agencies

General Surveying Sites

The American Surveyor....A foot in the past, an eye to the future..
BLM Cadastral - Arizona....Cadastral Tools & Reference Materials
BLM Cadastral - California ...Good source of information relating to BLM Cadastral surveys
BLM GCDB Website...Geographic Coordinate Database
Cadastral Survey .....Focus on the Public Land Surveying System
Flatirons Surveying ....A Colorado company with lots of good pages explaining types of surveys
Geomatics .... Prof DA Wahlström JD MS
GSS Geomatics ...Geodetic Software Systems - Geomatics Information Center
Institution of Surveyors, Australia
Land Surveying & Geomatics ...."The World's second oldest profession"
Land Surveyor Reference Page .....Comprehensive Surveying related information
POB Magazine .....Point of Beginning
Professional Surveyor ....PS Magazine
SurveyNet ....Based in Maine....Discussion forums and many other valuable data sources
Surveying Zone.COM ....dedicated to the needs of the surveying & mapping community...
Surveyors Guide ....Search for land, property, commercial....surveyors
www.RPLS.com ....Online resources for Professional Land Surveyors
U.S. Mineral Surveyor Program ....BLM Cadastral Nevada Office
Virtual Museum of Surveying ...Good information on old surveying instruments
Yahoo Geomatics/Surveying Directory ....Your basic Yahoo directory....All surveying related

Miscellaneous

Books, Trivia, Tools, etc.

The Compleat Surveyor .....Collectable Surveying Books and Equipment
In Search of Longitude .....PBS - Nova program
How far is it ...Calculate distances between cities.
The Museum of HP Calculators ...Check out your first HP!
Surveyor's Guide to the FEMA Elevation Certificate...On-line multi-media training
Units of Measurement ...All you ever wanted to know
MegaConverter 2 ...Convert from anything to anything.
Magnetic Declination FAQ...What is Magnetic Declination?
RedVector.com...On-line Continuing Education
The PI Trivia Game .....No, cornbread are square...pi are round

Surveying Software

Surveying Software sites
COE Geospatial Engineering Branch
Penn State Surveying Software
Units Conversions
NGS Software & Datasheets

Good Examples

LABINS .....Florida Land Boundary Information....Online data sources for surveyors

Mapping

Perry-Castenada Map Collection ....Links to a variety of mapping resources
USGS Land Information System
USGS Map Accuracy Standards
Tiger Map Server Browser....1998 TIGER/Line Data & 1990 Decennial Census Data
TopoZone - Map View ....USGS Quads on line
Wormley's Maps & Mapping Agencies ....Links to a variety of mapping resources

Newsgroups

Professional Associations

COPS .....ACEC - Council of Professional Surveyors
ACSM .....American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
ALSA .....Alberta Land Surveyors Association
ALTA .....American Land Title Association
ASCE ....Geomatics Division - American Society of Civil Engineers
ASPRS .....American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
FIG .....International Federation of Surveyors
IRWA .....International Right of Way Association
IRWA Chapter 71 - Arctic Trails .....Fairbanks, Alaska IRWA Chapter
IRWA Chapter 49 .....Anchorage, Alaska IRWA Chapter
MAPPS .....Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors
NCEES .....National Council of Examiners for Eng. & Surveying
NSPS .....National Society of Professional Surveyors
RICS .....Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
URISA .....Urban & Regional Information Systems Association
WFPS ...Western Federation of Professional Surveyors
WSLCA ....Western States Land Commissioners Association

Right of Way, Title & Law

First American Title...Describing Real Property
Land Record Reference .....Background on property descriptions
Right of Way - Allen, Williford & Seale .....A site for Right of Way Professionals
The 'Lectric Law Library ......Legal references including a bit of legal humor
Findlaw .....Internet Legal Resources

State Surveying Societies