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Top news stories for 

• NFLSA & GVLSA Golf Outing - July 10th - click here to view the flyer for details
• Why we will always need surveyors - click here
• Lagos adopts digital mapping; GIS for land administration - click here
• 18th century surveyor's history of Delaware/Maryland border - click here
• IN MEMORIAM - Aziel LaFave, LS - click here
• "The Longest Walk" book details land purchase/deeds from 1600s Colonial America - click here
• Alabama neighbor feud over boundary results in shooting - click here
• Texas family of 9 builds house on wrong lot - click here
• TX Senate passes eminent domain law protecting landowner property rights - click here
• CT tribal dispute raises issues of boundary, cease and desist - click here
• MAPPS praises Parcel Stakeholder Summit - click here
• Sacramento, CA property owners protest survey plans for new water canal - click here
• NV and Calif argue boundary dispute dating back to 1850 - click here
• Maritime survey could settle dispute between Migingo Islands - click here
• Emminent domain law, trespass rules, leads proposed trail to court - click here to hear video or read story
• "Lines in the Earth" art display in Indiana gallery - click here
• Interview with Brent Jones, ESRI Survey Manager - click here
• Plug-n-play mobile mapping system launched at SPARS - click here
• Mobile mapping laser tool becoming more accessible - click here
• NGS Surveyor clarifies "Four State Corners" discrepancy - click here
• Ghana strikes oil rich lands - Minister calls for skilled surveyors to take leadership role - click here
• Surveying error at four corners puts marker 2 miles west National Geodetic Survey confirms -   Click here
• Ghana asks land surveyors for proposals to reform land acquisition and tenure system - click here
• India's property registration system complex, bribery used to access records - click here
• Nigeria surveyors group lobby against proposed land use proposals - click here
• Rails for Trails project stirs controversy over property lines with land owners - click here
• UK couple spends $60K and lose boundary dispute over 6 feet of land - click here
• Cape Cod boundary hunters get lesson in 18th century archeology - click here
• CO city ignores traffic set-back rules, property owners angry over boundary line - click here
• Survey company helps unemployed surveyors - click here
• Company sues town under adverse possession laws - click here
• NYSAPLS announces new member benefit - health insurance plan - click here
• TV newscast in Indiana - property disputes with survey filed - click here to view video
• NYSAPLS Member Seguin in the news - click here
• NJ - Maps put Hogs Island in two different counties - click here
• Delaware couple builds house on land they don't own - click here
• Herkimer County, NY - corporate annexation agreement grants additional parcels back to county - click here
• Eff May 1 in CT - residents must hire surveyor before home additions can be built - click here
• Utah law adds wilderness, grows cities - click here
• Oldest working surveyor in VT is honored - click here
• NYSAPLS Call for Presentations - 2009 and 2010 - click here
• People of Bhutan finally settle land rights/ownership - click here
• Google explains mystery of Atlantis - NY Times blog - click here
• The case of the $100,000 fence in Toronto - click here
• Surveyors fined in TX homeowner flood maps - click here
• UK legal case to determine rights to parking/common drive - click here
• Malaysia struggles to grant surveyors legal right to authorize land maps - click here
• View NYSAPLS 50th Conference photos here - option to order prints - click here
• NYSAPLS member in the news - questions Mohawk village line - click here
• Sustainability and surveying in the UK - click here
• Good fences make problems for Syracuse owners - click here
• Surveyors and Hollywood - its not all about the property market - click here
• UK Couple removes fence in boundary dispute - now loses everything - click here
• School in Calcutta built on wrong lot - click here
• Google Earth expands to ocean mapping - click here
• Digital land survey management comes to Bangladesh - click here
• FL survey firm introduces "Green Surveying" - click here
• Inuit travelers link vast geographic networks without mapping - click here
• New website focuses on Machine Control Guidance - click here
• Surveyors' campaign pays off as people register property - click here
• Cornerstone history survey project on Cape Cod - click here
• Easements and country living - what you need to know - click here
• Practicing without design profession license a felony in Michigan - click here 
• Fences, good neighbors and adverse possession in Watertown - click here
• Professional stamps and seal important when documenting authority - click here
• PA couple seeking land ownership through adverse possession - click here
• Survey land before problems can arise - click here
• Neighbor thinks adverse possession law is "cruel and unfair" - click here

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