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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Develop survey plans, methods and procedures for conducting legal surveys
• Plan, direct and supervise or conduct surveys to establish and mark legal boundaries of properties, parcels of lands, provincial and Canada Lands, Aboriginal land claims, wellsites, mining claims, utility rights-of-way, roadways and highways
• Survey and lay out subdivisions for rural and urban development
• Determine precise locations using electronic distance measuring equipment and global positioning systems (GPS)
• Analyze, manage and display data using geographic information systems (GIS) and computer-aided design and drafting (CAD)
• Record all measurements and other information obtained during survey activities
• Prepare or supervise the preparation and compilation of all data, plans, charts, records and documents related to surveys of real property boundaries
• Certify and assume liability for surveys made to establish real property boundaries
• Advise, provide consultation and testify as an expert witness on matters related to legal surveys
• May supervise other land surveyors, and land survey technologists and technicians.

• A bachelor's degree in geomatics engineering or survey engineering or A college diploma in survey science or geomatics technology with additional academic credits and successful completion of equivalent examinations set by a regional board of examiners for land surveyors is required.
• A one- to three-year articling period is required.
• Successful completion of professional land surveyor examinations is required.
• A federal or provincial land surveyor's licence is required.

• Federal statutes require a separate licence from the Association of Canada Land Surveyors to survey areas such as national parks, Aboriginal lands, offshore areas and northern territories.

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