User:RekonDog/Surveying
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Surveying is regarded as a sub-discipline of civil engineering all over the world; it is the combined usage of geometry, trigonometry, calculus, physics, and law. Its technique and science are used to accurately determine the terrestrial or three-dimensional space (or position) of points and the relationship of its distances and angles between them.
The topics of surveying and measurement cover a wide variety of component subjects. For the purposes of these pages "surveying" is that definition of the word which refers to the collection of data relating to the recording of surface and near surface features of the earth and generally their representation as a map, plan or digital model of the those features. By "measurement" is meant those instruments and methods of measurement that relate in some way to the execution of surveying as defined above.
Ever since the beginning of recorded history (circa 5000 years ago), surveying has been an essential element in the development of the human environment; and it is a requirement in the planning and execution of nearly every form of construction. Its most familiar modern uses are in the fields of transport, building and construction, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership.