Land Surveyor here. I have no idea where you got the impression that surveyors introduced artificial defects in the past, but this is flat wrong. Cartographers,

Land Surveyor here. I have no idea where you got the impression that surveyors introduced artificial defects in the past, but this is flat wrong. Cartographers, who make maps at incredibly large scales, sure, occasionally. But “precision surveying” vastly preceded GPS (which...is still nowhere near our most precise instrument) and nearly all of the worlds infrastructure was laid out by incredibly skilled and competent individuals who would have been risking their livelihood had they done what you’re implying. Survey maps aren’t “copyrighted”.