What is the job of a surveyor?

A surveyor or geodesist is a person who professionally engages in geodesy.

The activities of a geodetic engineer include:

Determining the size and shape of the Earth, and collecting and processing the data necessary to determine the Earth’s gravity field as well as the position, size, shape and surface of any part of it.

Determining the position of the Earth in space, determining its structure, monitoring its spatial changes and changes in buildings.

Determining the position of state and other administrative borders, and the boundaries of public and private land plots, including the registration of these plots with the competent administrations.

Research into the natural and social environment, discovering the characteristics of land and sea, and using the obtained data in municipal, city, county and state social and spatial development plans.

Planning, development and new design of ownership relations between land plots and buildings.

Determining the value of individual land plots and buildings, and managing ownership relations over them.

Planning, surveying, organization and supervision of construction works.

Design, establishment and management of geographic, cartographic and land information systems, and permanent collection, storage, processing and analysis of data in these systems.

Displaying information about space in the form of cartographic views.