Intersect: Attributes: How do you make a surveyor understand the
importance of ALL the attributes, not just the X/Y/Z
coordinates?? Professional Surveyor Magazine - April 2008 Janet
Jackson, GISP and Randy Rambeau, Sr., PLS • GIS JANET says … The
survey community needs to understand that there are many
different types of uses for GIS data and most involve much more
information than the basic X/Y coordinates. My quick answer to
this question is that you make a surveyor understand the
importance of all the attributes by thoroughly explaining what
attributes represent and why they are so important. However, I
have taken this approach before only to hear the comment,
"Surveyors don't want to be involved with GIS because the data
isn't accurate. Geospatial information needs a highly accurate
set of X/Y coordinates in order to be represented in a GIS." And
to that I say … not ALL geospatial information needs to be
survey-quality to be recorded, displayed, and highlighted on a
map to give you a true picture of infor