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From what I remember (where I am obviously), the Department of Water division of the Department of Natural resources surveys pretty much all of the area of the

by kemiller2002 6y ago

From what I remember (where I am obviously), the Department of Water division of the Department of Natural resources surveys pretty much all of the area of the state. When someone builds something in a new place, there is quite a bit of research that goes into water tables, flood zones, etc. I would assume they map that out, but honestly I can't say for certain. I do know that it's occurred on occasion that rules get "bent" to make certain things happen. It's politics and money, and permitting is a high visibility job.

to11mtm 6y ago
It depends! I used to do permitting for construction of aerial and buried fiber networks. Typically if you're doing some sort of thing where floodplain data is needed, you'll start by finding the dataset from USGS/FEMA/USGIS/etc. Import that in, you'll get a whole bunch of data that depending on package (i.e. if you are doing stuff in AutoCAD instead of working with real GIS software) you might have to shape to get more proper information; floodplain data looks like a bunch of contoured lines (often semiparallel to each other.) based on the survey, and have different embedded metadata accordingly. So you'll do your drawing based on that, and ideally at some point, a Surveyor goes out and will Verify the map. They'll do this by probably re-pulling the original survey data, going out to the site, and basically making sure you didn't lie in your map. This last part BTW is an important check&boundary, and IMO the more important one than municipal approval. A good professional surveyor knows that if he does the wrong (i.e. potentially harmful) thing, he could lose his license and livelyhood forever. Professional Seals are something that I have a lot of respect for. FWIW, this is often the easier part of getting a permit as long as you are building sanely. The city is where politics, money, and process gets broken.

to11mtm 6y ago

It depends! I used to do permitting for construction of aerial and buried fiber networks. Typically if you're doing some sort of thing where floodplain data is needed, you'll start by finding the dataset from USGS/FEMA/USGIS/etc. Import that in, you'll get a whole bunch of data that depending on package (i.e. if you are doing stuff in AutoCAD instead of working with real GIS software) you might have to shape to get more proper information; floodplain data looks like a bunch of contoured lines (often semiparallel to each other.) based on the survey, and have different embedded metadata accordingly. So you'll do your drawing based on that, and ideally at some point, a Surveyor goes out and will Verify the map. They'll do this by probably re-pulling the original survey data, going out to the site, and basically making sure you didn't lie in your map. This last part BTW is an important check&boundary, and IMO the more important one than municipal approval. A good professional surveyor knows that if he does the wrong (i.e. potentially harmful) thing, he could lose his license and livelyhood forever. Professional Seals are something that I have a lot of respect for. FWIW, this is often the easier part of getting a permit as long as you are building sanely. The city is where politics, money, and process gets broken.