When searching for a land surveyor in Rhode Island, land surveyor near me or local land surveyor, Foster Survey Company is your RI trusted land surveyors and mapping experts.
The State of Rhode Island Land Surveyor Board defines a professional land surveyor as:
“registered Professional Land Surveyor authorized to currently practice land surveying by the Board and who has complied with the continuing education requirements prescribed herein”
The requirements to become a licensed RI professional land surveyor for a RI property survey, property survey and plan, elevation certificate, LOMA Letter of Map Amendment, and septic system design requires a combination of land surveying education, experience and passing two national land surveying test and one Rhode Island state specific test. In total, the testing to become a professional land surveyor in Rhode Island includes a minimum of 18 hours of tests! And, once becoming a registered professional land surveyor, a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education is then required every two years.
Eric Colburn, president and owner of Foster Survey Company, is a licensed Rhode Island Professional Land Surveyor (Lic.No. 1920) since 1995 and practicing land surveying since 1984. In addition to being a RI Professional Land Surveyor, Mr. Colburn is a Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management OWTS licensed designer (Lic.No. 2052) of septic systems (aka Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems).
Wikipedia defines land surveyor and land surveying as:
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish maps and boundaries for ownership, locations, such as building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, or other purposes required by government or civil law, such as property sales.
Surveyors work with elements of geometry, trigonometry, regression analysis, physics, engineering, metrology, programming languages, and the law. They use equipment, such as total stations, robotic total stations, theodolites, GNSS receivers, retroreflectors, 3D scanners, radios, inclinometer, handheld tablets, digital levels, subsurface locators, drones, GIS, and surveying software.
Surveying has been an element in the development of the human environment since the beginning of recorded history. The planning and execution of most forms of construction require it. It is also used in transport, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership. It is an important tool for research in many other scientific disciplines.
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