Surveying and Mapping Technicians

• Calculate latitudes, longitudes, angles, areas, or other information for mapmaking, using survey field notes or reference tables.
• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
• Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.
• Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
• Compare topographical features or contour lines with images from aerial photographs, old maps, or other reference materials to verify the accuracy of their identification.
• Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.
• Analyze aerial photographs to detect and interpret significant military, industrial, resource, or topographical data.
• Research and combine existing property information to describe property boundaries in relation to adjacent properties, taking into account parcel splits, combinations, or land boundary adjustments.
• Answer questions and provide information to the public or to staff members regarding assessment maps, surveys, boundaries, easements, property ownership, roads, zoning, or similar matters.
• Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, electronic distance measuring equipment, or electronic data collectors.
• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
• Trace contours or topographic details to generate maps that denote specific land or property locations or geographic attributes.
• Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
• Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.
• Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
• Trim, align, and join prints to form photographic mosaics, maintaining scaled distances between reference points.
• Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.
• Complete detailed source and method notes describing the location of routine or complex land parcels.
• Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.

No augmentable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (100%).

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (100%).