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Automations for Survey Technicians

Perform surveying and mapping duties, usually under the direction of an engineer, surveyor, cartographer, or photogrammetrist, to obtain data used for construction, mapmaking, boundary location, mining, or other purposes. May calculate mapmaking information and create maps from source data, such as surveying notes, aerial photography, satellite data, or other maps to show topographical features, political boundaries, and other features. May verify accuracy and completeness of maps.

O*NET occupation: Surveying and Mapping Technicians (17-3031.00). The software list and tasks below come from that record, not from guesswork.

Runs on software survey technicians already use

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Software survey technicians use that we connect

What we can build for survey technicians

The job’s documented tasks, most important first. Each is a request away.

  1. Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.Quote it
  2. Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.Quote it
  3. Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.Quote it
  4. Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.Quote it
  5. Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.Quote it
  6. Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.Quote it

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