GIS Needs Land Surveyors
GIS is commonly used by organizations around the world to manage land (real estate) and infrastructure. It is this particular application of GIS that can most benefit from the involvement of land surveyors. Land surveyors have the expertise to improve GIS applications for land and infrastructure. This expertise includes:
- The ability to measure accurately on the surface of the earth.
- An understanding of real estate law.
- An understanding of land use planning and land use regulation.
- An understanding of civil engineering design.
- An understanding of architectural design.
- Experience supporting the construction and monitoring of physical infrastructure.
- The ability to evaluate spatial data accuracy.
- Practice collecting metadata.
Who Are We?
GIS For Land and Infrastructure is a formal group of volunteers working to improve the GIS for land and infrastructure. Our volunteers include land surveyors, land use planners, civil engineers, and GIS professionals.
GIS For Land and Infrastructure is a non-profit and politically neutral.
Landon Blake, Hunter Stetson, and Brian Lesier currently serve on our executive committee.
Our corporate sponsor is Redefined Horizons, a small land surveying and land use planning company that helps people maximize value in real estate and infrastructure.
Get Involved!
There are several ways you can get involved as a volunteer at GIS For Land and Infrastructure.
- Join one of our working groups.
- Sign up to perform peer review of our technical standards.
- Help write code in Python for tools that help GIS professionals implement our technical standards.
- Contribute articles to our magazine. (You can also assist with layout and editing.)
- Help answer questions and moderate posts on our Slack channels.
- Sign up to be an external GIS advisor.
- Help us develop and improve our GIS data models.