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will AI replace surveying and mapping technicians?

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74/100 career outlook

Mixed picture. AI will change how you work, but the role itself is growing. Lean into the parts only you can do.

0% ai exposure+4.5% job growth
job growth
+4.5%
2024–2034
employed (2024)
59,400
people
annual openings
7,600
per year
ai exposure
0.0%
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tasks where you're irreplaceable
  • Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
  • Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
  • Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.
  • Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
  • Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
  • Determine scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters.
  • Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
  • Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.

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