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A surveyor general is an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory. Historically, this would often have been a military ...
Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and ...
A group of surveyors at Surveyor-Generals Corner in June 2018 Surveyor Generals Corner at the intersection of Australian time zones during daylight saving time. Surveyor Generals Corner (or Surveyor-Generals Corner) is the point where the Australian state boundaries of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory meet. [1] [2]
The spatial sciences range from the traditional practices of surveying and cartography to the more recent practices using GPS, remote sensing and GIS.The spatial sciences involve the skills and understanding to capture, store, manage, manipulate, analyse, model, visualise, set-out and govern information that can be referenced to location.
The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government body, from its constitution in 1597. Appointments to the post were made by the crown under Letters Patent. His duties were to examine the ordnance received to see that it was of good quality.
Domesday Book, England, 1086: Earliest historical record of 'county surveying' as an administrative function Table of Surveying, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, Volume 2. George Washington, freemason King Æthelstan and Saint Cuthbert John Smith 1624 map of Bermuda. A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States ...
The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) was an American professional association representing the interests of those engaged in measuring and communicating geospatial data. [1] Originally, it was composed of four organizations: American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS) National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS)