Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Does not pass

• Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.9% of the role's time · $176M · waiting on a check

• Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.3% of the role's time · $158M · waiting on a check

• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.

  physical work, outside the screen · 5.2% of the role's time · $155M

• Analyze aerial photographs to detect and interpret significant military, industrial, resource, or topographical data.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.0% of the role's time · $149M

• Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.0% of the role's time · $149M · waiting on a check

• Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 4.2% of the role's time · $124M · passed by Gemini 3.1 Pro · the models disagreed · waiting on a check

• Compare topographical features or contour lines with images from aerial photographs, old maps, or other reference materials to verify the accuracy of their identification.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.4% of the role's time · $99.9M · waiting on a check

• Trace contours or topographic details to generate maps that denote specific land or property locations or geographic attributes.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.6M · waiting on a check

• Research and combine existing property information to describe property boundaries in relation to adjacent properties, taking into account parcel splits, combinations, or land boundary adjustments.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it, and a failure is too expensive · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, electronic distance measuring equipment, or electronic data collectors.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, or other relevant information.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• 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.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Enter Global Positioning System (GPS) data, legal deeds, field notes, or land survey reports into geographic information system (GIS) workstations so that information can be transformed into graphic land descriptions, such as maps and drawings.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M · passed by Claude Sonnet · the models disagreed

• Prepare cost estimates for mapping projects.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Prepare topographic or contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M · waiting on a check

• Record survey measurements or descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, or inked tracings.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M · passed by Claude Sonnet · the models disagreed

• Search for section corners, property irons, or survey points.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Set out and recover stakes, marks, or other monumentation.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Supervise or coordinate activities of workers engaged in surveying, plotting data, drafting maps, or producing blueprints, photostats, or photographs.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 3.3% of the role's time · $97.5M

• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.2% of the role's time · $95.4M

• Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.0% of the role's time · $88.7M · waiting on a check

• Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 2.5% of the role's time · $74.7M · waiting on a check

• Trim, align, and join prints to form photographic mosaics, maintaining scaled distances between reference points.

  physical work, outside the screen · 2.4% of the role's time · $70.5M

• Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 2.1% of the role's time · $62.7M

• Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 2.0% of the role's time · $59.5M

• Answer questions and provide information to the public or to staff members regarding assessment maps, surveys, boundaries, easements, property ownership, roads, zoning, or similar matters.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 1.7% of the role's time · $51.0M · waiting on a check

• Complete detailed source and method notes describing the location of routine or complex land parcels.

  reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 1.0% of the role's time · $30.2M