Work : Some Details About Surveying
The tasks of surveying have been highly important for thousands of years. Even the ancient Egyptians used surveyors to establish boundary lines between farms. There have been many famous surveyors throughout history, including both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Surveying is a fascinating profession with many applications, but there are types of surveying that you might not have known about. You probably knew that surveyors often have the important tasks of defining exactly where land boundaries should be set, but you might not have known that this type of surveying is known as cadastral surveying. Determining who owns a specific piece of land or where a city or country’s boundary exists has been a hugely important task since the earliest civilizations existed. There are several different tools that surveyors use to accomplish boundary-related tasks, as well as many other surveying and construction tasks. The theodolite is helpful for measuring angles, whether th...