GIS over Surveys in Arkansas

Dan,

It's that way all over. State budget pruners in Oklahoma are constantly looking for ways to trim down the number of professional boards by combining them. I don't see it as a good idea. Although our Oklahoma Board of Licensure has dodged several bullets in the past, there's always another volley around the corner.

Can you imagine the State Board for Body & Fender, Land Surveyors and Dental Hygienists? :pinch:

Dan-

I note "E. Cheatham" is in the 'masthead' with the other "wise" folk.

Seems to Your Obedient Servant a bit of an Abbott & Costello matter in Arkansas

as to who is to do what.

I'm used the operation of mapping in Ontario where it is the registered professional surveyor who practices in the category of Geographic Information Management and has the opportunity to belong to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors.

Do you have a political lobby group of your cadastral surveyors ?

We don't here unfortunately, but the Professional Engineers do.

http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=26717&la_id=1

Cheers,

Derek

The State Surveyors office has been transferred from the Agri Department to the Arkansas Geographic Information Office (AGIO). Thr AGIO has $40 or $50 K in their budget to hire a Professional Surveyor. The State Surveyors Office develops our minimum technical standards. At this time we are required to file all the non recorded lot surveys with the State Surveyors Office. With some very lose accuracy standards, if it fits under a number 2 washtub it is close enough. I expect that in the future surveyors will be required to file georeferebced shape of their surveys so that the plat can be entered into a GIS for realtors to use in the future only time w I'll tell. I will be celebrating 30 years of licensure about 5 minutes before Dan does, in June. I think I have signed my last plat in Arkansas so it probably will not effect me.

ARGHHHHHH!!!

This is frustrating.