Traverse

Traverse is the News Bulletin of the Institution of Surveyors Victoria. It is published monthly and provides members with technical and educational articles, letters from members regarding matters of interest, reports from office bearers and information on events and other activities.

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280 December 2011
  • Rob's Ramblings
  • Cash Processes
  • Surveyor-General Victoria Newsletter
  • Surveying Industry Gala Awards Dinner
  • Information from Land Victoria
  • SPEAR Subdivision Implementation
  • Bridging the Generation Gap and Managing Staff
  • Review of Aboriginal Heritage Legislation
  • Curly's Corner
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279 October 2011
  • The Future of Our Profession - An Update!
  • Rob's Ramblings
  • Cash Rules: Do You Rule Your Cash or Does your Cash Rule You
  • Surveying Industry Gala Awards Dinner
  • Curly's Corner
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278 August 2011
  • 40 years ago...
  • Career Advisors Telemarketing reaches regional areas
  • Student Surveying Incursion
  • Surveying Industry Gala Awards Dinner
  • Weeding the 40th Parallel - North
  • Curly's Corner
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277 June 2011
  • A problem with an old right of way: a case study from the Victorian Surveyors' Conference, April 2011
  • 2011 Regional Conference - Shepparton
  • Forsaking ownership to land over which adverse possession exists - A Small Refinement
  • Simple Maths
  • Curly's Corner
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276 May 2011
  • Keynote Address Given at the 2011 ISV Regional Conference
  • RedR
  • Career Advisors Direct Marketing makes an impact
  • Forsaking Ownership to Land Over Which Adverse Possession Exists - The problem can be solved without legislative change
  • Curly's Corner
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275 April 2011
  • Discussion on approach to instances where an applicant seeks to forsake ownership to land over which adverse possession rights exist.
  • Access to the Victorian Regional Rail Network
  • Peter Williams Retires
  • 7 reasons you should never check e-mail first thing in the morning
  • Curly's Corner
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274 March 2011
  • The Dethridge Wheel - 100 Years of Faithful Service
  • Growing Your Practice - The Biggest Sale of a Lifetime
  • From Your Committee
  • Geomatics at the University of Melbourne has a New Home
  • Curly's Corner
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273 February 2011
  • C.P.D. - The Backbone and Strength of Our Profession
  • From Your Committee
  • Emeritus Professor John Bullamore Mackie, Surveyor
  • Results of the SRBV Board Meeting
  • Surveying Equipment: Assessment of value buying on eBay
  • Curly's Corner
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272 January 2011
  • Getting a Fair Price - Getting the most out of your surveying practice
  • New Members, Graduate Members & Student Member welcomed by ISV
  • Surveyor-General Victoria Update
  • Gunter Chains - Chesterman
  • In the Beginning...Historical minutes & notes of intentions to form an association
  • Surveying Equipment: Assessment of value buying on eBay
  • Curly's Corner
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271 December 2010
  • The Evolution of the Surveying Workplace
  • Barrie Bremner - New ISV Fellow
  • Land Victoria - Non-Survey guidelines for plans lodged under section 22, 32 and 35 of the Subdivision Act 1988
  • Surveying Task Force Update
  • Workplace Health
  • Surveying Task Force Update
  • Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria - Conferral Ceremony
  • Curly's Corner
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270 November 2010
  • History and the Professional Surveyor
  • Straight from the Archives...Traverse 1 (March 1964)
  • From the President - Perception & Ground-Truthing
  • Melbourne University Geomatics Society (MUGS) 2010 Final Years Poster Presentation
  • Proposed Australia-New Zealand Standard for the Location and Mapping of Underground Services
  • Surveying Task Force Update
  • RMIT Final Year Student Major Project Presentations
  • Inaugural Student Surveying Day
  • Curly's Corner
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269 September/October 2010
  • ISV President's Incoming Address
  • Warrnambool Regional Conference
  • Conflict Contract or Confusion Risk Management
  • Book Review: Frederick Robert D'Arcy: Colonial Surveyor, Explorer and Artist
  • From the Office of the Surveyor General (continued from Issue 268)
  • Surveying Task Force Update
  • Vicmap Bulletin No 42, 27 September 2010
  • Visiting the "Green" NSW Inland
  • Minister launches new naming guidelines
  • Curly's Corner
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268 August 2010
  • Damien Rivalland L.S. & J. G. Gillespie Gold Medal Prize Nomination 2010
  • ISV Welcomes Rodney Edwin Deakin and William Napier Cameron
  • 2010 Surveying Expo
  • 2010 Surveying Industry Awards Gala Dinner
  • From the Office of the Surveyor General
  • Antarctic Surveyors
  • Curly's Corner
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267 July 2010
  • Of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and Kings
  • A Young Surveyor's report from the XXIV FIG International Congress 2010 held in Sydney Australia
  • Studying Surveying at the University of Melbourne
  • Curly's Corner
  • Information from Land Victoria
  • Property Law Review
  • 2010 ISV President's Golf Challenge
  • Past in Review by Major John Richard Boule; II from the Engineer 2003
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266 June 2010
  • The Act Review: The 'Claytons' Review
  • Curly's Corner
  • Information from Land Victoria: Government Roads are Public Highways
  • Try Surveying on for Size
  • Book Review: Measuring America - How the United States was shaped by the greatest land sale in history
  • Seminar Review: Business Skills for Today's Surveyor
  • Past in Review: Washington - Engineer and Engineer Advocate
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265 April 2010
  • Training the Other Surveyor
  • Planning Process Improvement In Melbourne's Growth Areas
  • J G Gillespie Gold Medal Prize - Call For Nominations
  • Curly's Corner
  • Building Envelopes Within Plans of Subdivision
  • Survey Sense: Missing A file? It's not a problem anymore
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264 March 2010
  • From The President
  • Regional Groups Update
  • New Executive Officer Appointed
  • Railway Boundaries
  • From the Office of the Surveyor General - A busy year, and more to come
  • Curly's Corner
  • How Peter Richards built up his surveying business, thanks to Topcon
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263 October/November 2009
  • Victorian Spatial Summit and surveying Expo 2009
  • An open letter from the Surveying Task Force
  • Obituary: Raymond Robert Smith O.A.M.
  • Curly's Corner
  • Eulogy - Aubrey Russell Houghton
  • Farewell from Pat
  • Victorian Surveying History
  • The Seventies
  • The International Federation of Surveyors [FIG]
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262 September 2009
  • As It Happened
  • From the Office of the Surveyor-General
  • ISV's Photo Competition
  • The Sixties
  • FIG 2010 Internation Surveying Congress
  • Braeside EDM Calibration Baseline Notice
  • Curly's Corner
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261 August 2009
  • The Future of Our Profession
  • Calculator Update: H15
  • J G Gillespie Gold Medal Prize 2009: Bradley Matthew Aujard
  • A New Fellow of The Institution of Surveyors, Victoria
  • Surveying Industry Gala Dinner
  • The Fifties - Surveyors' diversity of surveys locations and equipment used over the years
  • Professional Development Seminar at the Dandenong Club
  • Supply of D-Spec Data to Councils
  • Curly's Corner
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260 July 2009
  • Are You Involved?!
  • Show Me The Money
  • Missing a File? It's Not a Problem Anymore
  • Gone: the ISA. Some Personal Rumination for Your Review
  • Major Mitchell Commemorative Project
  • Curly's Corner
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259 May/June 2009
  • Do you Want Fries with That?
  • Institution of Surveyors, Australia - Demise of a Profession
  • 50 Annual General Meeting of the Gippsland Group
  • Neil Dickins - 50 Years of Membership
  • Melbourne University Geomatics Students Club
  • Dip Circle - Old Surveying Equipment of Historical Interest
  • Introduction of Risk Management
  • Curly's Corner
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258 April 2009
  • Surveyors' Salaries - Where to from here?
  • Peter McCrohan & Robert Steel: Two new Fellows of the ISV
  • Letter to the Editor of "Azimuth" - Proposed Merger of ISA and SSI
  • Back to Basics 101
  • From the Office of the Surveyor-General
  • Curly's Corner
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257 March 2009
  • Quality traversing
  • Edward Linney SIM (28 March 1924 - 6 January 2009)
  • Beechworth Regional Survey Conference
  • Invitation from Subdivision Branch Land Victoria
  • Cadastral Corner
  • The Army - The Cutting Edge of Survey Equipment
  • Curly's Corner
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