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3.1 KiB
name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| cadastral-technician | Occupational skill for the role 'cadastral technician' (also: cadastral surveyor, cadastral mapping technician, cadastral land surveyor, land agent). Use when the user asks for typical cadastral technician work such as: Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.; Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.; Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data. |
Cadastral Technician
Cadastral technicians design and create maps and blue-prints, converting new measurement results into the real estate cadastre of a community. They define and indicate the property boundaries and ownerships, land use, and create city and district maps using measurement equipment and specialised software.
Core workflow
- Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
- Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
- Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.
- Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
- Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
- Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.
- Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
- Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- cartography
- compare survey computations
- conduct land surveys
- create cadastral maps
- document survey operations
- geographic information systems
- operate surveying instruments
- perform surveying calculations
- process collected survey data
- record survey data
- surveying methods
- use geographic information systems
Hot technologies
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Bentley MicroStation
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- ESRI ArcGIS software
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2561879a-dd0a-454e-ae6e-9be6c488eb56), ONET 30.3 (17-3031.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*