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The profession of land surveying was not regulated in British Columbia until the late 1800s. [6] Before 1891, the provincial government recognized a cadre of professional Surveyors - many of whom had been Royal Engineers [6] In 1890, the Association of Provincial Land Surveyors was launched during a two-day long meeting held in Victoria and attended by 22 surveyors. [7]
Starting at each intersection of a meridian and a baseline and working west (also working east of the First Meridian and the Coast Meridian [9]), nearly square townships were surveyed, whose north–south and east–west sides are about 6 miles (9.7 km) in length. There are two tiers of townships to the north and two tiers to the south of each ...
David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America 1784–1812 Vol's I and II, Champlain Society 1916, PDF (B/W) 25.1 MB; Complete text of David Thompson's Narrative (Tyrrell edition) [permanent dead link ] Champlain Society digital collection; Complete text of David Thompson's Narrative (Glover edition) Champlain Society ...
The subdivision scheme that the National Topographic System uses is known as the National Tiling System, [3] which also functions as a coarse method of geocoding.This scheme initially splits the country into three major "zones", each spanning a different range of latitudes.
While compass surveying, the magnetic needle is sometimes disturbed from its normal position under the influence of external attractive forces. Such a disturbing influence is called as local attraction. [1] The external forces are produced by sources of local attraction which may be current carrying wire (magnetic materials) or metal objects. [2]
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The survey played an important role in the exploration of Canada, especially in the mapping of hitherto-uncharted parts of British Columbia. In British Columbia, survey work was overseen by Walter Moberly , a former Colony of British Columbia land official and cabinet member , and involved steamboat support vessels on the Arrow Lakes and ...
The spatial sciences range from the traditional practices of surveying and cartography to the more recent practices using GPS, remote sensing and GIS.The spatial sciences involve the skills and understanding to capture, store, manage, manipulate, analyse, model, visualise, set-out and govern information that can be referenced to location.