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Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

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01Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.AI could speed this up a lot
04Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
05Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
06Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
07Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
08Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
09Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

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O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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