In the July Quarterly report, PSC talked about the Unauthorized Practice of Surveying in the Town of Birch Hills.

The Town of Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, on their website was offering a lot corner location service for its residents at a low cost. The Saskatchewan Land Surveyors’ Association approached the Town regarding the unauthorized practice of surveying, but no retraction of survey monument location services was made.

Professional Surveyors Canada has engaged a Saskatchewan based lawyer to research the liabilities and legalities associated with the unauthorized practice of land surveying by municipalities, and to write an article on the matter to be published in a manner targeting municipalities across Canada. These practices result in significant liability for municipalities and their residents with negligible benefits, and PSC’s goal is to effectively communicate this message to municipal leaders in a positive manner.

After a long period, in July 2020, Birch Hills ceased locating survey monuments for their citizens.

PSC continues to develop media for the purpose of preventing the unauthorized practice of professional surveying across Canada.

Dans le rapport trimestriel de juillet, GPC a signalé un exercice non autorisé de l’arpentage dans la municipalité de Birch Hills.

La municipalité de Birch Hills, en Saskatchewan, offrait sur son site Web un service de localisation des limites de terrain à ses résidents à bas prix. La Saskatchewan Land Surveyors’ Association a communiqué avec la Municipalité au sujet de cet exercice non autorisé de l’arpentage, mais aucun retrait des services de localisation de bornes d’arpentage n’a eu lieu.

Géomètres professionnels du Canada a embauché un avocat de la Saskatchewan pour faire des recherches sur les responsabilités et les aspects légaux associés à l’exercice non autorisé de l’arpentage des terres par les municipalités, et pour rédiger un article sur le sujet, qui sera publié d’une manière ciblant toutes les municipalités du Canada. Un exercice non autorisé de l’arpentage engage la responsabilité des municipalités et de leurs résidents tout en ne leur apportant que des avantages négligeables. L’objectif de GPC est de communiquer ce message de façon efficace et positive aux dirigeants municipaux.

Après une longue période, en juillet 2020, Birch Hills a cessé d’offrir des services de localisation des bornes d'arpentage à ses citoyens.

GPC continue d’élaborer des messages médiatiques pour prévenir l’exercice non autorisé de l’arpentage au Canada.

The Boundary Point

Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2020

By Four Point Learning

This issue discusses a recent decision which explored how to approach the re-establishment of a natural boundary when water levels are controlled.

Read the complete article here.

The Boundary Point is published by Four Point Learning as a free monthly e-newsletter, providing case comments of decisions involving some issue or aspect of property title and boundary law in Canada.

Location: GTA office, and travel to sites within and beyond the GTA

Qualifications: OLS license or ability to obtain Ontario Land Survey license in a reasonable time frame

Experience: 5+ years of previous project management experience

The National Job Bank has been designed by surveyors specifically for members of the Professional Surveyors Canada community. Complimentary posting of information to the National Job Bank is a benefit of membership.

La Banque d'emplois nationale a été conçue par des arpenteurs-géomètres spécifiquement pour les membres de Géomètres professionnels du Canada. L’affichage gratuit sur la banque d’emplois nationale constitue l’un des avantages de votre adhésion.

NSPS September 3, 2020 Newsletter

The Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP), a Federal Advisory Committee to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will hold a virtual public meeting on September 23, from 1:00 to 5:30pm EDT and September 24, 2020 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm EDT, to focus on NOAA’s navigation services, address implementation plans for two ocean and coastal mapping strategies, and other HSRP topics. Read more in the NSPS newsletter

DL-Online

Becker County has discovered historical road documents that commissioners think will give a big lift to the county’s chance of prevailing in an upcoming court case over right-of-way on West Lake Drive.

“Through a stroke of luck, Meadowland Surveying came up with an 1872 ‘road area’ document from two years after the area was first surveyed,” County Surveyor Roy Smith told Becker County commissioners at their board meeting Tuesday. Read more

NSPS September 10, 2020 Newsletter

In response to an inquiry of the business community in identifying job killing regulations to roll back, NSPS urged the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), to conduct oversight and an investigation into the expansion and applicability of the Davis-Bacon Act to members of surveying crews working on federal financed construction projects. This expansion was initiated by All Agency Memorandum (AAM-212), issued by the Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division during the Obama Administration on March 22, 2013. NSPS Executive Director Curtis Sumner wrote, “We believe the classification of members of survey crews as “laborers and mechanics” is detrimental to our profession and an inappropriate demotion of valued and skilled employees … Read more in the NSPS newsletter

Multichannel News

The FCC's rules for establishing a new broadband data collection regime go into effect Sept. 17.

The comment dates have also been set for proposals on how the FCC can provide consumers, governmental entities and others the ability to verify and/or challenge the new maps.

The latter are Sept. 8 for comments and Sept. 17 for replies. Read more

Arizona Daily Star

America has one too many feet, so the federal government is about to lop one of them off with the help of a surveyor from Tucson.

Michael Dennis, who lives in Vail, is leading an effort by the National Geodetic Survey to eliminate an obscure, decades-old unit of measurement known as the U.S. survey foot. Read more

GPS World

Our ongoing battle with COVID-19 has shown we can adapt to radical changes. A big, but worthwhile, change would be to convert our existing land databases to a cadastre system.

Any place that one may travel around the globe, they will find boundary lines that define properties and regions. For some countries, these parcels may be primarily owned by the government while in more developed nations, a large percent of the land is owned by private citizens.

These parcels, when looked at together, together create a large jigsaw puzzle that seemingly fits together perfectly. Read more

Point of Beginning POB

As any professional land surveyor knows, we are a part of a great profession. It offers tremendous variety, the chance to work outdoors, the opportunity to apply math and geography skills in the real world, and the satisfaction of contributing something of lasting value and importance.

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I did a quick online review of what careers are being recommended to high school and middle school students, and surveying didn’t make any of the lists. That is unfortunate. According to the Princeton Review, “. . . surveying job opportunities are expected to increase by more than 20 percent in the next ten years.” Read more

The Telegram

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) has issued the final design for a new Eastern Newfoundland Region Sector, which was announced as a general location on June 11, for future oil exploration in the province’s offshore.

A news release Wednesday notes the final sector design is fully contained within the general location that was referenced in June. Read more

DM insights on location

The European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI) has appointed Marcos Martínez-Fernández as Secretary-General. An association of companies involved in the generation of geographic data from manned aerial platforms, EAASI has grown rapidly since its official launch last year. Read more

Star News

An argument over garden boundaries in Dunedin yesterday ended in plants and garden equipment being thrown down a hill and a warning for assault.

The incident started when an argument broke out between two neighbours in Coolock Crescent, in Waverley, over property boundaries. Read more

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