#27 - Nate Dang and Kevin Grover
Everything is Somewhere Podcast · The American Surveyor
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Show Notes
In this episode, Angus talks with Nate Dang of Accurate Surveying & Mapping and Kevin Grover, Head of Customer Success at Looq AI, about pushing reality capture into everyday surveying. They walk through an award‑winning project on a historic opera house in Soldier, Idaho, where Nate deliberately skipped the total station and combined Looq's handheld QCAM imagery with GNSS and drone data to deliver survey‑grade results. The conversation explores hardware and workflow, how Looq's imagery‑only approach compares to lidar, where AI actually adds value, and why dense, intelligent photo‑based datasets can finally make photogrammetry practical for "bread and butter" topo and design jobs. It is a nuts‑and‑bolts look at turning R&D into reliable production work.