The Geoholics

It's been a while! The guys (and Will Wing!) were joined this week by Larry Fox, VP of Marketing & Business Development at Bad Elf and Christoph Strecha, Founder of Pix4D who shared insights into how the integration of Bad Elf’s GNSS technology with Pix4D’s software enhances accuracy and efficiency for geospatial professionals. We dive into the collaboration between Bad Elf and Pix4D, exploring their innovative 3D scanning solution and its impact on the AEC industry. We dug even deeper into comparing traditional reality capture methods like lidar and photogrammetry, addressing challenges in 3D spatial data capture, the future of mobile 3D scanning in AEC workflows, and the ease of integration with existing surveying and scanning workflows. Music by Black Sabbath!

Check out these highlights from Day 3 of this year's awesome event!!! 00:30 - Colton Anderson, Co-Founder of Kartorium 13:53 - Bill Lakeland, CEO at Spexi 28:14 - Elaine Ball, Co-Founder of Get Kids Into Survey and CEO at Elaine Ball, Ltd. 46:15 - Sam Beaupre, Sales Director at Geo-Plus 1:03:32 - Mateus Sione, Regional Manager at EMLID and Max Boosfeld, CEO at Wingtra    

Check out these highlights from Day 2 of this year's awesome event!!! 00:10 - William Peterson, Area Sales Manager at Flyability 15:35 - Joe Hutton, Director of Inertial Technology, Airborne Products at Trimble 25:12 - Pablo Fuentes, Co-Founder and Principal at Makepath 43:32 - Dennis Hirota, President at Sam O. Hirota, Inc. 1:05:48 - Susan Brattberg, Founder and Chief Customer Officer & Jessa Tracy, Director of Marketing at Global E-Training 1:20:32 - Courtney Tovar, QA/QC Manager at Aerial Services, Inc. 1:28:20 - Marc Goldman, Director of Industry Solutions at ESRI

Check out these highlights from Day 2 of this year's awesome event!!! 00:30 - Ryan Palfrey, Product Manager at Emesent 12:12 - Pierangelo Rothenbuhler, CTO at Pix4D 26:20 - Mario Montagna, Navy Veteran, Survey Technician, Part 107 sUAS Pilot and Student of Geography, GIS, & Geomatics 44:10 - Montana Moore, GIS Analyst at Denver Regional Council of Governments 1:00:10 - Stuart Drahota, Virtual Building Leader and Josh Destefano, Innovation Leader at DPR Construction 1:19:24 - Jason Hayes, Market Manager 3D Laser Scanning Solutions at Trimble  

Check out these highlights from Day 1 of this year's awesome event!!! 03:40 - Rami Tamimi, Founder and Head Instructor and Valeria Montero from The Survey School 18:58 - Sherry Rennick, Owner at Perspective 3D, LLC 31:45 - Dawn Zoldi, Founder and CEO at P3 Tech Consulting LLC 44:12 - Joshua Sanders, Student at Ferris State University 54:15 - Larry Fox, VP Marketing and Business Development at Bad Elf, LLC and Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, Founder and CEO at PrecisionTerra 1:10:30 - Firas Fahoum, CTO at Galilee Surveyors, LTD

This was one for the ages as they say! The guys were joined this week by two heavyweights in the land survey world. Mike #1 is Mike Banta, PLS who has been surveying for nearly 40 years and is the Survey Manager at Rick Engineering Company. Mike #2 is Mike Fondren, PLS who has been surveying for over 25 years and is the Survey Manager at RLF Consulting, LLC. We had SO MUCH fun discussing the evolution of land surveying, the current state of the industry and where land surveying is headed with these two legends. You're not going to want to miss this one...be like The Mikes! Music by Three Dog Night!

Oh my word...yet another value adding and life changing episode! The guys were joined in-studio this week by our good friend Brian Owens. We believe Brian to be the FIRST in the "5 Timer" club! By day, Brian is the Vice President of Safety & Team Development at Buesing Corp. By night, Brian is not only a very talented musician, songwriter and author, but also a passionate crusader of workplace safety. As a philosopher, he strives to provide perspective to help people remember that the reason we work in the first place is to provide a sustainable means for the people, freedoms, and activities we all hold dear. As a safety professional, he reminds those same people that if we aren't behaving safely, and if we aren't being aggressively proactive to ensure the sustainment of our chosen ideals, we are just allowing situational circumstances to dictate the direction, and the outcome. Remember, if it ever gets hopeless, you overlooked something...let all that sink in! Music by Lynyrd Skynyrd!!

PSA...we're experimenting with some things so please bare with us as we fine tune the show format for 2025. On to the show...this is ALWAYS one of the most downloaded episodes of the year. The guys (and Peta Cox!) were joined this week by the one and only Mikel Bowman! We freakin love every second we get to spend with this guy and honored to call him a friend. Mikel is President at Bowman Legacies as well as a best selling author, coach, keynote speaker, leadership development coach, business and personal development coach, and mentor! There is so much value adding content in this episode that you'd be a damn fool not to give it a listen! Music by Metallica!

We love these guys and you will to! We were joined this week by Rob Cammack, Founder/CEO, Taylor Dixon, Co-Founder, Hayes Wilkinson, Geospatial Data Department Lead and Bailey Franklin, Marketing Lead all with SmartDrone. SmartDrone's mission is to revolutionize aerial surveying and mapping. Their focus is on making drone technology accessible and efficient for professionals in industries like construction, engineering, and land surveying. During this episode we explored all the cutting-edge solutions provided by SmartDrone including their flagship product, Discovery, a drone platform designed to simplify the process of collecting, analyzing, and applying high-resolution aerial data. SmartDrone's emphasis is on user-friendly software and hardware integration allowing their clients to quickly generate actionable data without extensive technical training. This episode is perfect for professionals interested in the intersection of drones, technology, and innovation in the built environment. Whether you're a seasoned surveyor, an AEC professional, or someone curious about emerging tech, you’ll gain valuable insights from the leaders driving SmartDrone’s success. Music by Foo Fighters!

It's always fun when we have the Cyanic Automation crew on the show and this time was no different! The guys were joined this week by Doug Kondor, Founder & CEO and Mike Heath, Founder & CTO at Cyanic Automation with a bonus appearance by Brian Ball, PLS an all around good guy from MH Surveys! Take this journey with us as we dive into the innovative world of Job Book, a cutting-edge platform revolutionizing how professionals manage all phases of their projects and the daily operation of their respective businesses all in ONE place. With real-time project monitoring, streamlined invoicing, and enhanced staff accountability, Job Book may very well be the perfect solution for your growing company. Whether you're a sole proprietor, partnership or LLC, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss! Music by Dire Straits!

Check out these highlights from Day 3 of this year's awesome event!!! 00:30 – James Richards @ Benchmark Surveys 11:45 – Paul Cracroft-Wilson & Dean Warren @ Bennett and Bennett 24:15 – Adam Long & Airrik Martinez @ SAM, Inc 36:10 – Claire Fenwick @ Spatial Dimensions 49:50 – Tate Childers @ ALTA Southwest, Mike Walle @ Denn Engineers and Will Wing @ Infinity Land Surveying

Check out these highlights from Day 2 of this year's awesome event!!! 04:20 – Owen Chamberlain @ Trimble 15:00 – Mike Cisar @ Trimble 29:30 – Andy Pavletich @ DroneDeploy 43:20 – Chris Daggett & Julie Paull @ Atwell 53:10 – Mickey Kocemba & Eddo Feyen @ Mortenson Construction 1:07:50 – Moshe Dalman @ Rodradar

Check out these highlights from Day 1 of this year's awesome event!!!   04:20 – Michael Tartaglia, Technology Specialist and Sales Account Manager at Sitech Southwest & Chris Kellogg, Digital Construction Professional at Sitech Midway   21:50 - Chris Trevillian, Senior Director Product Go To Market at Trimble Inc.   38:40 - Marla Horn, Intern @ McKim & Creed Inc. & Christian Hayes, both Geomatics Students at the University of Florida   48:20 - Michael Barrett & Chad Phillips from PENNDOT   01:03:45 - Swathi Kottali, Regional BIM/VDC Manager at Yates Construction, Commercial Drone Pilot, Data Enthusiast and AI user   01:17:00 - Amy Northcutt, Director of Education & Outreach at Trimble, Inc.

We love it when a plan comes together! The guys were joined this week by a gaggle of mapping professionals including our good friend Bill Swope - Technical Leader for Survey & Geospatial @ Halff, Scott Dunham - Geospatial Director @ Gorrondona & Associates, Inc., and Balaji Ramachandran - Associate Research Professor @ Nicholls State University. Each of these guys plays an integral part in facilitating the upcoming 2025 ASPRS Business Meeting & Geospatial Conference to be held March 12th-14th in one of our favorite cities, Austin, Texas. You will learn everything there is to know about ASPRS in addition to being privy to all that this exciting and educational event is going to offer. Not only will The Geoholics be there, but there will also be a registration discount code for Geoholics listeners! Music by ZZ top...of course!

Dennis' career is one to behold! He spent over 30 years as a surveyor at the BLM and has plenty to say about the land survey profession. This time around we discussed the benefits of a multipurpose cadastre, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, who maintains it, AR/VR and surveying applications, and where all of this goes from here! Dennis is a wealth of knowledge with a cutting edge perspective and we are honored to call him a friend. A few additional takeaways include...be as digital as possible, always focus on the evidence, you have to love your work and hold everyone in high esteem! Music by Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra!

If you've been listening for a while, then you know that we have soft spot in our podcast hearts for Horses Help. Their vision for the future is to provide the special needs community a therapeutic and recreational equine environment where collaborative efforts of like minded organizations and volunteers can work together to design, construct and implement unique animal assisted opportunities maintaining the highest industry standards, while providing professional development of its participants, therapists, instructors, staff and volunteers, ensuring growth and diversity of the organization for years to come. Whether its supporting this amazing agency through The Pony Express (and our good friend Phil Fedor) or promoting what they do via The Geoholics platform, we can't say enough about the incredible people that make it all possible. Please enjoy these conversations recorded from this years Barn Bash!  

Oh man, this was such fun episode! The guys (along with our good friend Russ Hall) were joined this week by a couple of beauties...Craig Williams, Geomatics Sales Manager & Brian Elbe, Direct Sales Manager at Leica Geosystems a part of Hexagon. To say we covered a lot of ground would be an understatement! A few of the items discussed include the Leica/Hexagon relationship, the value of being a practicing licensed surveyor for many years prior to joining Leica, ground breaking developments, where reality capture is fitting in to workflows, what the most successful survey companies are doing different, what the next generation of surveyor will look like, the power of learning, Leica - "When it has to be right!", and we brought back the "favorite sandwich" question! Music by The Police!

Such an interesting conversation! The guys were joined this week by the one and only Dr. Tony Nettleman. Tony is a Land Surveyor, Real Property Attorney, Author, Speaker, and Educator, who has been practicing for over 25 years. Dr. Nettleman holds a BS, MS, and PhD in land surveying as well as a law degree. He is the President/Owner of Nettleman Land Consultants, Inc., and NLC Test Prep. Tony is licensed as a surveyor in ten states and as an attorney in Florida. He regularly testifies in court proceedings regarding land surveyor standards of care, boundary disputes, easement, water rights disputes, and other surveying-related matters. Tony has held distinguished professorships at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, University of Florida, Florida Atlantic University, and Troy University. When not in the field or in the courtroom, Tony helps surveyors become licensed. In fact, over the course of his career, he has helped over 1,000 land surveyors become licensed professionals. Tony is the author or co-author of several surveying related reference publications, including Clark on Surveying and Boundaries, Evidence and Procedure for Boundary Location, and Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles. He has given dozens of presentations to various state societies a variety of topics, including Legal Aspects of Surveying, Deeds, Boundaries, Understanding and Litigating Water Boundaries in Florida, and The Surveyor in the Role of Expert Witness. Find out more by visiting www.NLCPREP.com. Music by Zach Top!

Check out these highlights from this year's awesome event!!! 02:29 - David Fischl, Owner at O'Fischl Inclusion Consulting LTD  12:45 - Tyler Stewart, Solutions Manager at Swinerton 21:45 - Daniel Tabar, Co-Founder & President at Atomontage Inc. 34:30 - Mike Winn, CEO at DroneDeploy 50:48 - Joaquin Flores, VDC Manager, Vaughn Construction 1:03:21 - Zachary Stoner, Regional Manager and Drone Program Administrator at Sunrun 1:19:40 - Jaresiah Desrosiers, Senior Project Manager at Build Health International 1:31:00 - Davis Meeks, Assistant Project Manager at Garney Construction 1:43:10 - Ben Oller, Business Development Lead at GEODNET        

We love these guys! The boys were joined this week by Kory Baxley, Vice President of Sales and Scott Spears, Regional Sales Manager and all around great guy at AllTerra Central, Inc. At AllTerra, they LISTEN to their customers, they are here to HELP, they have the LATEST technology, they have the FASTEST service turn around time, they keep their team TRAINED, they are CLOSE by, they SUPPORT their local communities, THEY are your #1 source for ALL surveying, mapping, and supply needs. A few other takeaways include, Scott is a freakin pro…what you give out, you get back (PS)...guess what, you don’t have to carry thumb drive…get to know multi trademarked data source integration…leave no stone unturned…and always take the high road! Music by Greyhounds!