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O’Dell Engineering Land Surveying News: Survey Connections Monthly Publication Launched

December 12, 2013

O’Dell Engineering is publishing a brand new monthly publication entitled Survey Connections. The publication will be based on the company’s successful “Land Connections” letter and will have the same format. The publication is freely distributed. Survey Connections will help civil engineers, structural engineers, and geotechnical engineers better understand survey technologies and work products they may […]

O’Dell Engineering GIS News: Point Cloud to GIS Work Flow for Public Transit Infrastructure in the Bay Area

December 12, 2013

Land Surveyors at O’Dell Engineering have implemented a point cloud to GIS work flow using open source tools. The workflow allows the land surveying team to quickly extract GIS features from a point cloud. The workflow includes the use of AutoLISP code from the SurveyLISP Project and the open source desktop GIS OpenJUMP. The land […]

In The News: Dispute Over Ground Water Well In Patterson

December 12, 2013

The Modesto Bee Newspaper reported on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 that there is a legal dispute over the rights to water from a large ground water well in Patterson, California. The industrial ground water well was formerly used by Patterson Frozen Foods and has a capacity to rival that of all the other water users […]

In The News: San Joaquin County Plans Vineyard Regulation Changes

October 29, 2013

San Joaquin County has taken two (2) recent actions related to the regulation of vineyards and wine making. CBS Sacramento reports that the San Joaquin County Planning Commission will soon vote on a ban on winery events on the over 100,000 acres of vineyards within the county boundary. The ban is opposed by the Lodi […]