Gavin Schrock

Gavin Schrock, PLS is a surveyor, technology writer, consulting editor for GoGeomatics, and operator of a cooperative GNSS network (RTN). He has worked in surveying, mapping, data management, GNSS, and GIS for more than three decades in the civil, utility, defense, and mapping disciplines. He has published in these fields and has taught these subjects at local, state, national, and international conferences

Geo Soon: Coaching Robots

24 January 2019 Gavin Schrock | AI

Continuous surveying, to support smart cities, infrastructure, geodesign, and construction, is opening expanded—but unconventional—roles for surveyors and geospatial practitioners. “Put me in coach, I’m ready to play… today…” – John Fogerty [The following guest op-ed […]

Wanted – A GNSS Puck

9 October 2014 Gavin Schrock | 2020

“I want it! I want it! I want it!” – “Magic Bus” – The Who The Glass Floor. There is glass floor of precision and accuracy that has sometimes been a hindrance to geospatial field […]

U.S. Surveying, Geomatics, and Angst

7 April 2014 Gavin Schrock | Acquisition

“Not good enough damn it! Not good enough!” – Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Murphy, Managing Director of GoGeomatics asked me many months ago if I’d pen a guest blog entry on the question of Identity […]