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Poll - Aerial Mapping: Is Licensure Required in Your State?

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(@jkinak)
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All of the drone mappers are making me wonder:

What state are you in?
Are you required to have a license to produce aerial based:
Topographic Maps?
Orthophotos?

What kind of license is required (Survey, Engineer, Other)?

 
Posted : December 30, 2016 3:56 pm
(@jkinak)
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JKinAK, post: 406703, member: 7219 wrote: All of the drone mappers are making me wonder:

What state are you in?
Are you required to have a license to produce aerial based:
Topographic Maps?
Orthophotos?

What kind of license is required (Survey, Engineer, Other)?

Alaska
PLS required for Topo maps and Orthophotos

 
Posted : December 30, 2016 3:57 pm
(@ekillo)
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JKinAK, post: 406705, member: 7219 wrote: Alaska
PLS required for Topo maps and Orthophotos

NC ALSO

 
Posted : December 30, 2016 4:20 pm
jhframe
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From what I've seen not only are professional licensing laws being ignored, but FAA rules as well. I know of at least one commercial real estate project that used drone video in its presentation to the Planning Commission before commercial drone use was allowed at all. I also know a professional videographer who uses it occasionally -- he has his own drone -- and when I asked him if he had his Part 107 license, he told me he went online, filled out a couple of lines of information, and got his "license." (I think this may have been a noncommercial drone registration form, but it certainly wasn't a Part 107-compliant license to operate commercially.) It's still the wild west out there.

 
Posted : December 30, 2016 5:21 pm
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In Oregon photogrammetric mapping is included in the definition of Land Surveying. There is also separate licencing of Photogrammetrists.

 
Posted : December 30, 2016 6:23 pm

makerofmaps
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Here is a good link on that. https://www.asprs.org/ppd-division/licensure-maps-and-regulations.html

 
Posted : January 3, 2017 8:22 am
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makerofmaps, post: 407156, member: 9079 wrote: Here is a good link on that. https://www.asprs.org/ppd-division/licensure-maps-and-regulations.html

Seems accurate to California laws. Though I am not exactly clear on what is meant by "Authoritative Imagery"

 
Posted : January 3, 2017 2:28 pm
Jim in AZ
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In Arizona providing photogrammetric services is not classified as Land Surveying, but photogrammetrically produced products must be sealed by a Land Surveyor if provided to the public.

 
Posted : January 3, 2017 2:31 pm