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1. A hundred years ago, land survey crews in Canada's west could require a fair sized company of men, including the surveyor, a cook, two chainmen, two pit diggers and more! Today, the normal size of a crew consists of:
2. To start my career, I was the guy with the stick. What is the correct term for this position?
3. Decades ago, distances were made with a 'chain'. Each metal chain was 66 feet. In the eighties and nineties, most surveyors had upgraded their survey instrument to measure with light. What is this instrument called?
4. Of course nowadays GPS is widely used as the surveyor's yardstick of choice. What slowed the widespread usage of GPS in the land survey profession during the early nineties?
5. Being the guy with the stick, I had to pound a lot of wood stakes in the ground to mark out rights-of-way. What is the name for these long, skinny sticks?
6. We worked primarily in oil and gas fields. Because of this, we were required to take H2S safety training. H2S is hydrogen sulfide and it's deadly. What causes the formation of H2S?
7. In Saskatchewan, and I assume other locales, every surveyor's office must have:
8. Draftsman is so passe. In the 80's, this term was updated to draftsperson. But now replaced again by CAD operator. But what does it all mean? What does a CAD operator do?
9. In days before GPS, starting a survey where no previous surveys existed took some real ingenuity. Surveyors had to know where they were in the world. In the early days of Canadian and American expansion, the nearest survey might be a thousand miles away. How were surveyors able to determine their location?
10. Lands in Western Canada (with some differences in BC) and a large portion of USA are divided into units defined by their Township and:
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