SERVICES
SURVEYING & MAPPING
We can facilitate any of your land survey needs; from small, residential property
boundary surveys to large subdivision surveys and plans.
WHAT SURVEY BEST FITS YOUR NEEDS?
GRADE PLAN
Are you looking at putting an addition on to your house or are you building new? A Grade Plan will probably be required by the Municipality as part of the Building Permit package. Our field crew will attend to site and locate all visible man-made features on the property. We will also measure existing vertical ground elevations throughout. We will work with you and your Architect to build that dream!
Our field crew will attend to site and mark the corners of the proposed development. While on site they will also set a vertical site benchmark.
LAYOUT FOR FOOTINGS/FOUNDATION/CONTROL POINTS
Our field crew will attend to site and set the corners so your wall can be built. If you need specified points let us know what control points you require.
Do you require a Minor Variance? Are you looking at doing a Boundary Adjustment or are you creating a New Lot? The Committee of Adjustment will need a Plan as part of your Application. We can prepare the Plan with all of the required information.
This illustrates a piece of land and can be used to create an easement, right-of-way, a new lot/boundary adjustment or to fix an erroneous legal description. A Reference plan goes on title at the Land Registry Office and is used by your Lawer.
By implementing and maintaining a Land Information Management System you can have an accurate, current and reliable land record database with associated attributes. A Land Information Management System contains spatial data that represent the legal boundaries of land parcels and provides a base layer for integration into other spatial information systems. It can also be used as a standalone solution that permits users to retrieve, create, update, store, view and analyze. Land Information Systems deliver real benefits to a range of organizations: · Land owners – including estate managers, agri business cooperatives, and government authorities · Natural resource use companies – including forestry, extraction and wind energy companies · Local and central government requiring accurate land and building use inventories
HISTORY OF GEODETIC DATUM Elevations (benchmarks) have been established throughout Canada based on conventional levelling whose observations date back to 1904. There are approximately 80,000 benchmarks over 120,000 kilometres of levelling lines. The values were revised in: 1931; 1963; 1965; 1971; 1978 and 1980. In 1988 unexplained discrepancies of the order of 1.5 metres hindered an adjustment being implemented. The geodetic datum in place does not represent today's required accuracy and the responsible Federal Agency acknowledges that there are distortions of up to one metre. INTERNATIONAL GREAT LAKES DATUM Is based on Geodetic Datum AND the Elevations (benchmarks) location. The location of the Benchmark plays a pivotal role in the adjustment factor applied to the Geodetic. We have found as much as 2 Kilometres between the published value and the actual location of a monument. CANADIAN SPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM With the cutbacks in government funding, minimal vertical leveling validation has been undertaken. The geoid model that we are using has been recognized as being fully compatible with modern positioning techniques. We can establish both Vertical and Horizontal Control with centimeter accuracy to meet your timetable demands. For Government Agencies we can help identify where there are areas of concern and establish values for public use.