Geodetic Computer

Responsible clerical work computing land survey data. An employee in this class is responsible for checking computations or making computations from land surveying data secured by field surveying staff. Work involves the use of standard formulae, charts, scales, and graphs to obtain conversion or corrective factors. Assignments are received in the form of field notes taken by survey staff or computations submitted by private surveyors. The employee is subjected to close supervision and detailed instructions from a superior until the application of the various computation methods are learned. Work is checked through comparison with computations made independently by other personnel using the same field data.