A Bit of Surveyor's Trivia
"What does Mount Rushmore have in common with a Land Surveyor?"
Answer: Three of the four presidents carved into the face of Mount Rushmore (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln) were boundary surveyors.
Bible Verses About Surveying
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Zechariah 4: 10
For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.
Surveying: Past and Present
Historically, the first expeditions endeavored in any uncharted region have been performed by surveyors. The oldest types of surveys in recorded history are boundary surveys, which date back to about 1400 B.C. when Egyptian surveyors divided up portions of land in the fertile Nile River.
Before the astronauts landed on the moon, surveyors used images of the moon to create an overall lunar map, and detailed maps of potential landing sites. The first unmanned vehicles to Mars returned images for the purpose of mapping our neighboring planet..