In Quebec, land surveyors are public officers and are the only professionals authorized by the Land Surveyors Act to provide a certificate of localization. They must also be a member in good standing of the aforementioned OAGQ.
A land surveyor is an expert in property boundaries and geomatics. Geomatics is the modern discipline which integrates the tasks of gathering, storing, processing, modeling, analyzing, and delivering spatially referenced or location information.