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Surveyors on the Minidoka Project in Idaho, 1918.The project controlled the flow of the Snake river with a series of dams and canals. Surveying in North America is heavily influenced by the United States Public lands survey system.
Prior to independence, Peter Jefferson, along with his son Thomas Jefferson, were land surveyors for the crown. At this time, surveyors used a system known as the metes and bounds system, which used "monuments"; identifiable objects such as rocks, trees, etc., as property markers. The surveyor would measure from monument to monument.
Officers and civilians of the Survey saw service in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific and in the defense of North America and its waters, serving as artillery surveyors, hydrographers, amphibious engineers, beachmasters (i.e., directors of disembarkation), instructors at service schools, and in a wide range of technical positions.
A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn't violate a drone photography pilot's constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because ...
NAMS was formed in 1962 as the culmination of a 14-year process that began when the Underwriters Laboratories Marine Dept (Yacht Safety Bureau, as it was known at the time), convened a body of independent expert surveyors to conduct equipment-review and consult with the YSB. The group remained in existence until YSB’s reorganization in 1960.
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RICS was founded in London, England, as the Institution of Surveyors after a meeting of 49 surveyors at the Westminster Palace Hotel on 15 June 1868. The inaugural president was John Clutton (who founded Cluttons , a property firm still in business today).
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