This week is National Surveyors’ Week, and we want to recognize all our professional land surveyors in the Central Coast for their hard work and for continuing the profession. They have been responsible for providing answers to the questions of land-boundary determination since the early days of civilization. Land surveyors were instrumental in the formation of property boundaries of the United States, which has provided its citizens with the enjoyment of property ownership.
Land surveying is the art of measuring and mapping the land using the most sophisticated, and some less sophisticated, techniques and technologies — beginning with steel tape and star constellations, up to presently measuring with Global Positional Systems, laser scanners, and drones.
Did you know three of the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore were surveyors? That is right, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson were surveyors. Even though the early stages of this profession dates as far back as Ancient Egypt, this profession is not well known by the public today, creating a decline in land surveyors. We all have seen those people on the road or somewhere in town with a “camera” aiming at an empty lot or busy street. They might’ve been a surveyor and not a photographer.