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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

  1. Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
  2. Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
  3. Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.
  4. Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
  5. Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
  6. Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.
  7. Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
  8. Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.

How to use this skill

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.*