Surveying Special Interest Group Become a member of the newly formed Surveying Special Interest Group. Contact Us Contact the Surveying Industry Manager Mike Weir Tel. The Science of Surveyors Surveyors and engineers understand the importance of geography and spatial information. Surveyors collect geographic data, GIS solutions use geographic data. Surveyors use precise instruments, procedures, and computations to accurately locate and define geographic features while conducting field surveys that range from cadastral to engineering construction layout.
Engineers design and build structures and infrastructures on geography measured by surveyors.
The expansion of GIS technology has led to the development of new tools created specifically for surveyors and engineers. A GIS provides tools that will help you integrate a variety of data sources and types, maintain and manage inventories, visualize data and related information using dynamic maps, make decisions about resource management, and perform modeling and analysis. Surveyed data is organized by project, by surveyor, by date, by quality, by type, and by location. A GIS is a natural organizer and analyzer of this information. Bringing this data into a GIS provides for a spatial organization around survey data.