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Acknowledgments

First and foremost, thanks to James Wedding, who is the pioneer of this book. Along with his team through the years, it has come a long way. We have big shoes to fill with this project and we are humbled to be a part of it now.

Thanks to the whole team at Wiley: Willem Knibbe for listening to our pleas and giving us encouragement all the way; Pete Gaughan, who promptly answered our technical questions; the editors, Lisa Bishop, Elizabeth Campbell, and Liz Welch, for making sure that what we wrote made grammatical sense.

Thanks to Lisa Pohlmeyer, who meticulously combed through our datasets making sure they worked and offered great suggestions to make the book even better.

Thanks to Matt Anderson of Autodesk for his help and encouragement in the face of our incessant questions. Matt, you are the best!

Rick Graham & Louisa Holland

Thanks to my coauthor Louisa Holland for her expertise, enthusiasm, and attitude toward this project. I learned a lot from you and hope that this new partnership will carry forward to volumes in the future.

Thanks to my wife Melony for her love and encouragement and for letting me stay up all hours of the night so I could meet my deadlines. I owe you a cruise.

Thanks to John Huenke of Cornerstone Development and James R. Holley & Associates, Inc. for the use of the subdivision dataset; to Kevin Clark for the GIS dataset; to Matt Anderson for the MicroStation dataset; and to the general twittersphere population that follows me and has answered many questions.

And finally, thank you for purchasing this book.

Rick Graham

There are so many people without whom this book would not be possible. Thanks to Rick Graham for being a supportive and knowledgeable collaborator. Thanks to all my clients, past and present, for teaching me more about engineering than I ever could learn at university. Id like to thank all my Tweeps for answering questions and listening to me kvetch. Id like to thank my parents for not letting me become an architect.

For their technical and dataset contributions I want to thank Rick Larson, Brad Hollister, and Eric Arneson of WisDOT, Ladd Nelson of Carlson Software, and Steve Biver of Eagle Points left earlobe.

Id like to thank my coworkers at MasterGraphics, especially Russ Nicloy and Ron Butzen, for being super cool about letting me divide my focus from my day job.