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O*NET detailed work activityGather physical survey data
Stays humanHands-on work
5 jobs10 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Gather data about operational or development activities, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 10 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Compile data required for map preparation, including aerial photographs, survey notes, records, reports, and original maps.
- Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
- Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, or other relevant information.
- Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.
- Research and combine existing property information to describe property boundaries in relation to adjacent properties, taking into account parcel splits, combinations, or land boundary adjustments.
- Study legal records to establish boundaries of local, national, and international properties.
- Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
- Request additional survey data when field collection errors occur or engineering surveying specifications are not maintained.
- Observe and record field conditions, gathering, interpreting, and reporting data such as flow meter readings and chemical levels.
- Analyze aerial photographs to detect and interpret significant military, industrial, resource, or topographical data.