How do they match: Surveying and Mapping Technicians

  • GIS Manager
  • Geographic Information Systems Manager
  • I-Man
  • Instrument Man
  • Transit Man

  • Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
  • Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment, such as GPS, and other surveying instruments.
  • Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.
  • Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures or adjustments, azimuths, level runs, or placement of markers.