EditorialThe memoirist Saïd Sayrafiezadeh with a copy of “The Measure of Manhattan,” a biography of the surveyor John Randel Jr. published by Norton, at the centenary celebration of W.W. Norton & Company, the oldest and largest independently owned publishing house in the country, at Cipriani in New York, June 7, 2023. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialA mining surveyor works at the Opsirex coal mine site in the Phola township in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, March 29, 2022. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialAlpha Mohammed Kamara indicates to Kadijatu Jiallo, a surveyor, where he buried his wife in the village of Mabin in northern Sierra Leone, Feb. 19, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialIsata Kaitongi, top right, a surveyor, gathers cause-of-death data as part of an electronic verbal autopsy in the village of Mabin in northern Sierra Leone, Feb. 19, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialIn an undated photo from NASA, a Centaur second-stage rocket at NASA's Lewis Research Center (now the John H. Glenn Research Center) in Ohio in the 1960s. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Dennis, a surveyor and geodesist with the National Geodetic Survey, in Vail, Ariz., Aug. 14, 2020. (Cassidy Araiza/The New York Times)
EditorialSurveyor Randolph Ortega and his wife Caissa Vega inspect the collapsed Agripina Seda School in Guánica, P.R., Jan. 11, 2020. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)