Careers In Land Surveying

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MacKinnon setting up a Leica RTK GPS unit
MacKinnon setting up a Leica RTK GPS unit

Land surveying is an exciting Geomatics Career Field that is in high demand and often over looked by many young people when choosing a career path. Land surveyors are involved in many aspects of geomatics including urban and rural planning, Global Positioning System  (GPS) related services, software development, land information management, legal surveys and much more.

There are many employment opportunities for surveyors that  currently exist in both the private and public sector such as professional land surveyors, land survey technicians, technologists, mapping technicians, and geomatics technicians. Companies such as Stewart Weir and McElhanney (plus many, many more …) are in need of surveyors so besure to check out the GoGeomatics  job board for some of the many jobs that they post there.


 

T Mackinnon

T Mackinnon

Ted is a highly motivated professional with over 20 years of seomatics experience (GIS, Remote Sensing, Cartography, LIDAR and; GPS Surveying) in Private Industry, Academics, Non Profits and Government. His diverse background obtained through a combination of experiences from data acquisition, data creation, analysis, problem solving, customer service, technical writing, project management, program development, supervising and networking has fueled his career over the years. He continues to inspires the younger geospatial community to be highly involved the industry and helps bring other professionals together to learn more about Canadian geographic information.

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