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Instructions and help about Geographical Survey Report Sample

A topographical survey is basically, it's a map showing the property that's going to give you contour elevation. So it's also elevation data, as well as your X and Y data grading features that sort of thing. And as well as the power poles are going to show up and the tree line if you're doing a topographical survey,  you're doing some sort of development you're going to improve a property in some manner. So you need to know where those easement are. And how exactly are you taking these measurements? Is it measuring it from sea level up? Correct. So it's mean sea level  and there's multiple datums, but the most current datum is NAVD 88. So that's your mean sea level for North America And what kind of tool are you using to do this? A lot of it's GPS, we're also going to use a toll station, which measures angles and distances because once you get into the foliage, GPS doesn't work anymore. It's trigonometry and coordinate geometry survey grade GPS For our setup, we're going to use