The layout or stake-out is one of the most important assignments of the surveying engineer, and it is of vital importance in the building process, as the designed geometries of the structure ensure ...the verticality and the correct positioning inside the terrain. The mission of the surveying engineer involves both legal and technical aspects, and the correct planning of the layout process must take into consideration aspects regarding the site conditions, instrumentation used, the required and achievable accuracies, network design and survey methods used. Given the vast applications of geodesy and topography in different domains and industries, the study incorporates general notions and technical aspects regarding the workflow in cadastre and construction surveying, guidelines for an efficient design of site layout plan with on-site applicability, as well as a novel comparison between four methods of construction lines geometry layout on batter boards. The results of this study aim to further consolidate the importance of accurate and efficient construction layout projects, with comprehensive design plans, methods and instrumentation selection, as well as recommendations. The presented discussions and conclusions are of interest to the geodetic community as well as the construction industry, and due to the pragmatic and experimental nature of the research, incorporates technical notes and original results of professional and academic importance.
This book focuses on fundamental and applied research on construction project management. It presents research papers and practice-oriented papers. The execution of construction projects is specific ...and particularly difficult because each implementation is a unique, complex, and dynamic process that consists of several or more subprocesses that are related to each other, in which various aspects of the investment process participate. Therefore, there is still a vital need to study, research, and conclude the engineering technology and management applied in construction projects. This book present unanimous research approach is a result of many years of studies, conducted by 35 well experienced authors. The common subject of research concerns the development of methods and tools for modeling multi-criteria processes in construction engineering.
This study is limited to the selected problematic aspects of cadastral surveys of land plots. Special attention is paid to the problem of on-site marking of the land plot boundaries. Authors have ...found that it determine imperative and complicated legal regulations. Cases where the act of marking-demonstration of the land plot boundaries is declared faulty in judicial practice are discussed. The problems of establishing the land plot boundaries are considered. Theoretical analysis is based on judicial practice. The advanced judicial practice demonstrates that immovable object cadastral surveys cannot correct legal ownership relationships.
The purpose of this paper is to present and analyze a small part of geodetic and cartographic heritage from the period of Venetian administration in Dalmatia which has been kept and preserved at the ...State Archive in Zadar. Due to the establishment of cadastral service for the purposes of Venetian administration, land surveyors worked in the field. The subject of this research are letters from the State Archive in Zadar, written by land surveyors in field and addressed to General Regent. The research contains 674 letters dealing with the issue of cadastral survey throughout the 18th century. Importance and complexity of these letters rest upon the fact that surveys refer mostly to the border area between Venetian and Turkish properties in Dalmatia, an area where the border was often submitted to changes. Every new acquisition of the Venetian administration brought inevitable changes to the land area. Since some of the letters contain maps of specific areas, they also represent a valuable contribution to cartography.
This article covers all the most relevant aspects of judicial expertise in the field of land surveying. It is focused on non-contentious civil procedures for the regulation of boundaries, for the ...division of common property, enforcement procedure for the division of property. Among them, the problems of division into divided co-ownership (condominium) were also taken into consideration. The author explains how the judge and the expert co-operate in the public hearing or outside of it to issue a court decision that is (together with expert's specific input) appropriate for inscription into the cadastre. In case of division of land with parcelling or in the case of division into a condominium, a further inscription into the land register is necessary. The advantage of this contribution is in author's taking a position on disputed questions in relationship between the legal and land surveying professions, by taking into consideration the legal sources from both sides.
Svrha je ovog rada prikazati i analizirati jedan manji dio geodetsko-kartografske baštine iz doba mletačke uprave Dalmacijom koji se čuva u Državnom arhivu u Zadru. Zbog sastavljanja katastarskog ...operata za potrebe mletačke uprave na terenu su djelovali ovlašteni mjernici. Predmet istraživanja su pisma ovlaštenih mjernika iz Državnog arhiva u Zadru, a upućena providuru s terena. Riječ je o 674 pisma koja se bave problematikom katastarske izmjere kroz gotovo cijelo 18. stoljeće. Važnost i složenost tih pisama je u tome što se izmjere najvećim dijelom odnose na pogranično područje između mletačkih i turskih posjeda u Dalmaciji gdje se granica često mijenjala. Svaka nova stečevina Mletačke Republike unosila je neizbježne promjene u zemljišnom prostoru. Budući da su u pojedinim pismima priložene i karte određenoga područja, ta pisma predstavljaju i vrijedan doprinos kartografiji.
In the Preface to his book, The Four Faces of Fourcade, Clare Storrar (1990) wrote: “It is di.cult to appreciate the breadth and depth of Henry Georges Fourcade's intelligence and creative power. He ...was an intellectual giant, a phenomenon, whose theoretical and practical achievements have never received proper recognition. These were all the more remarkable because he began his original work on photogrammetry when science in South Africa was in its infancy, and he laboured alone far from libraries and other research facilities. His only higher academic training was in land surveying. He was adept in each of four sciences at various stages in his life, but, mainly because of his natural reserve, his reputation was highly compartmentalised. To foresters he was ‘the most brilliant forestry officer of his time’ to surveyors, he was exceptionally learned in theory and skilled in practice. Photogrammetry was a new subject, unheard of, except by a handful of scientists. In botany, which he took up seriously at the age of fifty‐five, his work was highly regarded by leading botanists in South Africa and in Europe. All stood in awe of his extraordinary talent and ability. Some were frightened of him. But few were able—in fact, not even the best brains were wholly qualified—to grasp fully the tremendous intellectual stature and potential of this protean man.”
This paper briefly describes the historic achievements of Henry Georges Fourcade, with the emphasis on his land surveying and, in particular, his photogrammetric contributions to science. The centenary of one of these, his proposal of a stereoscopic method of photographic surveying, occurs in October 2001.
Taking the method of formal consensus as its conceptual point of departure, the article analyses the Swedish cadastral executive procedure ( fastighetsförrättning ) as a case where the issue of land ...use directly confronts the individual citizen with the state administrative apparatus and its interpretation of the land policy legislation. In the mixture of negotiations, consensual decision-making and court procedure that characterizes this process the emphasis is on the crucial, and complex role of the executive land surveyor. Identifying deliberative democracy and communicative planning theory as two complementary discourses within which to discuss the cadastral executive procedure, the article finally argues that giving consensual approaches to planning a stronger place in their training would substantially improve the ability of the land surveyor to execute her/his delicate set of roles in this procedure.
Material to Mythology Chura, Patrick
Thoreau the Land Surveyor,
10/2010
Book Chapter
This chapter discusses Henry David Thoreau's surveying career. To analyze
nineteenth-century land surveying is to study Henry Thoreau's primary nonliterary
pursuit, an activity that took up a large ...portion of his adult life. Thoreau actually
made the Walden survey, a three-dimensional pond map that is now one of the most
important images in American literary history. The pond survey was a rare type of work,
an experiential episode in Thoreau's life the processes of which are now somewhat hard
to imagine.
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