would be appropriate as resulted from an earlier post.
"In Ontario we have just had new Regulations enacted and now professional surveying is the only profession in Ontario that has "Performance Standards" by Regulation !"
Bit like SOZ as we ACT under the state issued License to uphold the State guaranteed cadastre.
The best line is .....
"cadastral survey" means a survey performed by a licensed member while engaged in the practice of cadastral surveying; ("levé cadastral")
Here in OZ a member has another connotation....
Our surveys are all done to AMG 94 in designated areas where PMs ( PERMANENT MARKS) all coordinated AND ADJUSTED. Out of these areas if use GPS then orientate to AMG94 else work to local datumn. Most of built up areas in Adelaide and large towns and many rural area PMs are coordinated.
The physical marking of rural PMs with blue dropper and covering of urban PMs so that cover flush with footpath, (sidewalk) material, registered for easy DB4UD access has seen the initial cost reaped back in their saving from needless destruction. Mark maintenance is government paid and has been fiercely protected in budget cuts. GPS has now made life easier, given the coordination commenced in the 1970s before EDM! when has tellurometers for base line and triangulation.
A coordinated cadastral is every surveyors dream.
Realization is how much confidence do you have.
Does the location, on the ground, match the coordinated cadastral? And, be able to prove it.
I like what the boys at LTSA.CA are doing. I've met with Mike Thompson's crew twice and was enlightened by what they are doing.
Check them out, they really know what they are doing.
what do you think it would take to get your region to conform to a coordinated cadastral?
Works a pearler here.
Just spoke to our Surveyor General on a matter and got around to directive that he emailed out today to say now as completed coordination of survey marks in residential areas of Adelaide and major townships they are now concentrating on finishing settled rural areas. ( not the desert)
The directive stating what is required by surveyors to tie into PSM (permanent marks.)and what data to supply supply in these new rural designated tertiary network areas when adding a PSM.
Second order PSM will be added at spacing around 5 to 7 kms where void of PSMs. Void areas being where little or no surveying since original grant when permanent marks were not thought of.
RADU
