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Surveyor A Vital Profession

Why do I need a licensed or registered surveyor?

November 8, 2021Kim Hesse

Building? Renovating? Subdividing? Buying Property?  Chances are you will need the help of a Surveyor.  Licensed and registered surveyors are experts in cadastral (also known as land management) law, planning and titles and are the only professionals authorised by the government to legally define boundaries and prepare subdivision plans.  A surveyor can provide insight into gaining…

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Superheroes of the Survey Site

March 1, 2021Kellee Ireland

Look out! Is that a bird? Or a plane? No… it’s a surveyor! While surveyors already think they are superheroes, it’s likely that the world at large might need a little bit more convincing. That’s why it is exciting to have a dedicated comic book series placing young surveyors-in-training in that hero position. GeoSquad highlights…

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Explore the RMIT Geospatial Sciences Tour

December 2, 2020Kellee Ireland

Making the leap from the high school classroom to the tertiary learning environment can be daunting. For one thing, there many differences between these two worlds. Additionally, at a tertiary level you are choosing just one or two specialist areas to focus your study efforts on. Until you’re attending your first week of university of…

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Surveyors Making a Mark at Walt Disney World

November 12, 2020Kellee Ireland

By the 21st century, the name Disney has become so synonymous entertainment and childhood escapism that the cliched idea for the perfect holiday destination is, “Disneyland”. Disneyland and all the other associated Disney Parks around the world have many things in common. They all celebrate the characters and stories of Walt Disney’s cartoons and films….

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A Return to Campus Surveying

August 17, 2020Kellee Ireland

A global pandemic can’t keep surveyors down! For a profession that offers its workers such a wide variety of working environments – from indoors in the office to construction sites, rural areas, sea vessels and more – it isn’t surprising to see surveyors stepping back outdoors the first moment that they can. This goes just…

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How Surveying Mapped Out Our Capital

July 21, 2020Kellee Ireland

Surveying’s inpact on Australia can be measured all around us. Even on this website you can see just how inportant surveying has been in building Australia and the world up. In the past, it’s helped determine our state lines. Today, one of its many roles is to help determine property boundaries. In the future, it…

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Surveying on Mars

June 2, 2020Kellee Ireland

Here on this very website, we describe surveying as, “the measurement and mapping of our surrounding environment using mathematics, specialised technology and equipment”. But where does that leave alien environments? The surveyors of yesteryear were explorers of a kind, discovering foreign lands and mapping them as they went. Those documents proved invaluable records of our…

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Surveying in the Time of COVID-19

May 1, 2020Kellee Ireland

At the start of the year, very few of us would have predicted that we would be spending much of March and nearly all of April indoors. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the landscape right across the world. Of course, the knock-on effect of the necessary shutdown is that industries of all types are thrown…

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A surveying studies inspiration

March 17, 2020Kellee Ireland

Making surveying study look easy Surveying seems to attract people with drive, passion and verve. Georgia Moore is no exception. The RMIT student already has two surveying and spatial science qualifications under her belt, and she’s heading for a third. Not before she’s managed to score not one, but two major awards for her dedication…

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The measure of the future

January 30, 2020Kellee Ireland

As clever and dedicated as surveying professionals are, they can’t do their jobs all alone. Ever since human beings developed the concept of land ownership, the surveyor has been there with equipment in hand to help determine land boundaries. You can read all about the ancient history of surveying technology here – and about its…

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