February 14, 2014
O’Dell Engineering has completed the terrestrial laser scan registration for the Swanston Avenue portion of the Gilroy Water Mains Project. Over 30 individual scans were registered and unified into a single point cloud with over 20 million individual points. The O’Dell Engineering Team is now using the unified point cloud to extract features for the […]
February 10, 2014
On January 16, 2014 the Stockton Record Newspaper reported that San Joaquin County is no longer at the top of the foreclosure rankings in the United States. According to the article, the County now holds the 25th spot from the top of the list of communities with the most foreclosures. In the last few years it […]
February 7, 2014
On February 20, 2014 O’Dell Engineering Project Surveyor Landon Blake will be giving a talk on terrestrial laser scanning at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. The talk will be presented to the University’s ASCE Student Chapter. The location for the talk is in Khoury Hall, Room #205. It will start at 12PM. […]
February 2, 2014
On Friday, January 10 the O’Dell Engineering Land Survey Team worked with staff from the City of Manteca on field work for the San Joaquin County PLSS Maintenance and Improvement Project. The project is a volunteer effort coordinated by the San Joaquin County Government Liaison Committee of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter. […]
December 12, 2013
O’Dell Engineering has implemented a new GIS to manage the land subdivision process. The GIS will be used by O’Dell Engineering land surveyors on major land subdivision and master plan community projects throughout the California Central Valley. The GIS allows land surveyors at O’Dell Engineering to quickly and efficiently access records related to the subdivision […]
December 12, 2013
O’Dell Engineering has just started a major update of the GIS design it uses to manage land surveying data and real property records for the large right-of-way acquisition projects. The GIS is designed to manage information on land ownership information, tax assessor information, parcel boundary data, and information collected during boundary field surveys performed by O’Dell Engineering […]
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 […]
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 […]
