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Summer Membership Meeting - June 2025
Our June Membership meeting will be held in St. Charles County
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Speaker, Date & Details forthcoming. Check back for updates!
Past Meetings
Spring Membership Meeting - March 26th 2025
Outline for MSPSSTL – 2025 Spring Membership Meeting
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Office of TWM, Inc. 3701 S Lindbergh Blvd Suite 100, St. Louis, MO 63127
6:00 – 6:30 PM – Business Meeting, Non-Profit organization status, Scholarship Foundation, website updates, Ongoing St. Louis City/County limits original stones located and updated database and calculations by companies on website.
6:30 – 7:00 PM – New Survey Technician program, certified by the DOL and administrated by the StL Construction Forum. St. Louis Community College’s involvement, and a description of survey courses offered, career advancement and tuition paid for by St. Louis County Workforce Development.
Presentation to membership and open discussion with Tom McGovern from St. Louis County Community College, Tom Finan & Diana Wilhold from StL Construction Forum will present.
7:00 – 7:30 PM – AI in Surveying Presentation. Daily routines with AI, short-cutting work-flows. Walk-through Microsoft Office apps with AI assistance. Thoughtful prompting for precise outputs. Surveyor’s perspectives on AI questioning, input and liability during day-to-day use.
Demonstration showcasing useful AI platforms that can create detailed presentations and deliverables for projects.
Demonstration showcasing detailed prompting to create a Python app that allows coordinate data entry and calculates results in a user created input/output form or file.
Winter Membership Meeting / Surveyor's Roundtable - Dec. 11th, 2024
The Winter Membership Meeting / Holiday Survey Party will be held on December 11th at the offices of Clayton Engineering – 2268 Welsch Industrial Ct., St. Louis, MO 63146.
6-8pm. We have requested 1.5 PDUs for attendance of this meeting.
There will be a Hot Dog & Bratwurst Bar catered by Steve’s Hot Dogs
We will be presenting the family of Richard J. Barr with his Final Point, commissioned by NSPS.
We will be announcing our 2024-2025 St. Louis Chapter MSPS Scholarship recipient!
And the main discussion of the evening will be the surviving stones from the 1876 St. Louis City Charter, according to a survey by Julius Pitzman & Re-Survey by Thomas Featherson followed by a surveyor’s roundtable.
The full meeting outline can be found here.
Click Here for the 1.5 PDU Certificate
Golf Outing w/ IPLSA Southwest Chapter 2024
Summer/Fall Membership Meeting - August 21st, 2024
James W. Rennick Riverfront Park, Washington, MO.
6:30 – 7 PM – St. Louis Chapter Business Meeting, Scholarship Fundraiser Tickets and presentation about a new survey credit program by Midwest Geospatial Academy, while enjoying BBQ along the Missouri River by BFA, Inc.
7-8 PM – Presentation by Judge Ike Lamke of a court case that resulted in a decision about the location of the North-South section line between Section 4 and Section 5, Township 43 N., Range 2 W of the 5th PM.
Click here for Meeting Outline
Click here for all of the Case Files & Judge Ike Lamke Introduction
2024 Surveyors Cup Golf Tournament
Click here for Board Approved 1.5 PDU Certificate
Summer Membership Meeting - July 17th, 2024
The Summer Membership Meeting will be a presentation by County Planning and GIS Officials from our region to discuss their offices and procedures.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at 201 N. 2nd Street, St. Charles, MO 63301
Click Here for Board Approved 1.5 PDU Certificate
Spring Membership Meeting - March 27th 2024
Seiler Instruments – 3433 Tree Court Industrial Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63122
6:30pm- 8pm
The Spring Membership Meeting will include a presentation about the St. Louis Chapter 2024 Scholarships available for SIUE, State Tech & Optional other programs with presentations about that. Surveyors in Training and Associate members are strongly encouraged to attend!
The main presentation will discussion AI implementation in the Surveying Profession: Rapidly evolving software integrations, benefits and downsides, Surveyor’s responsibilities and awareness and preparedness of the unknown.
MSPS-STL March 2024 Meeting Program
Copilot ChatGPT4 DALL-E 3 Presentaion
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April 22nd, 1803
In Washington City, President Thomas Jefferson writes to his new secretary Lewis Harvie, informing him of MERIWETHER LEWIS' detention at Harper's Ferry and discusses Spain's cession of New Orleans to France.
"Dear Sir
Since my return to this place I have been in the daily expectation that the stage of the day would bring back Capt Lewis, and that then within a few days he woujld set out on his Mississippi expedition, it was only the day before yesterday I learned that he had been detained at Harper's Ferry a month instead of a week...
I have delayed writing to you, because my great regard for Capt Lewis made me unwilling to shew a haste to fill his place before he was gone, & to counteract also a malignant & unfounded report that I was parting with him from dissatisfaction, a thing impossible either from his conduct or my dispositions towards him.
You will have the letter of the Spanish minister, which we have forwarded to N. Orleans with an order from Spain to take off immediately the suspension of our right of deposit...that cession is probably not yet finally settled between those powers...
TH. JEFFERSON" ... See MoreSee Less
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April 20th, 1803
MERIWETHER LEWIS writes to President THOMAS JEFFERSON explaining a delay at Harper's Ferry Armory due to the design and construction of the iron-framed boat. He also discusses plans to hire interpreter John Conner and a boat builder in Nashville. He leaves Harper's Ferry for Lancaster, Pennsylvania where ANDREW ELLICOTT will train him in celestial navigation.
John Conner worked with the SHAWNEES and LENAPE DELAWARES. Likely, Lewis's, and later Clark's, invitations never reached him. In the end, several served as interpreters on the expedition.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"I arrived at this place yesterday, called on Mr. Ellicot, and have this day commenced, under his direction, my observations &c, to perfect myself in the use and application of the instruments. Mr. Ellicot is extreemly friendly and attentive, and I am confident is disposed to render me every aid in his power: he thinks it will be necessary I should remain here ten or twelve days...
I still think it practicable to reach the mouth of the Missourie by the 1st of August...
I am Sir, with much esteem and regard Your Most Obt. Servt.
MERIWETHER LEWIS" ... See MoreSee Less
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We are barely into the 2nd Quarter of the year and have a total 2025 membership of 42!
Remember that our corporate sponsors will have their logo and website linked on our home page. Please consider this membership for your company, and an individual membership for all Surveyors, Students and Associates!
MO - 37, IL - 5.
MO PLS Members - 34
LSIT Members - 1
Student/Associate Members - 4
Corporate Sponsors - 3
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April 18, 1803
Spanish envoy Casa Yrujo tells James Madison that the King has opened the port of New Orleans to United States merchants. Madison summarizes the letter and sends it to the local newspaper, the National Intelligencer, for publication. Meanwhile, MERIWETHER LEWIS completes his work at the Harpers Ferry armory. ... See MoreSee Less
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April 17th, 1803
In Paris, France, Robert Livingston informs the United States Secretary of State, James Madison, that his commission is insufficient for negotiating the purchase of Louisiana. In Washington City, the U.S. Attorney General, Levi Lincoln, writes a list of questions for MERIWETHER LEWIS to ask of the Native Nations he will meet. An excerpt states "As Capt Lewis may have in his company, some who have not had the small pox, would it not be best to carry some of the matter for the kinepox with him?"
(Kinepox is an alternative term for the smallpox vaccine used in the early 1800's)
LEWIS reported that the smallpox vaccine he was carrying had gone bad. ... See MoreSee Less
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From American Surveyor - Angus Stocking01.14.2025
The most immediate impact on our business has been on the software side. And I just had a discussion with one of our partners last week about this, and AI is becoming more prominent in data management. I think there’s still a lot of runway in front of us as far as how it’s going to directly impact even drones or traditional survey tools like, you know, GNSS or robots or anything like that—that’s where we hear a lot of buzz around AI, and obviously Trimble’s talking about it a lot as well.
More here, for a great read: amerisurv.com/2025/01/14/what-technology-cannot-replace/ ... See MoreSee Less
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