Land-surveying project brief and deliverables comparison worksheet

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How to use this resource

Record what you know about the site, parcel, intended use, project, access, occupants, existing documents, and desired deliverables. Mark assumptions and unknowns for the land surveyor or another qualified professional to verify. Ask each surveyor to explain the appropriate service, record research, fieldwork, markings, files, certifications, coordination, schedule, assumptions, exclusions, and written terms. Mention an elevation certificate or map-change deliverable only when it is actually part of your need and let the professional confirm applicability.

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Land Surveying preparation checklist

• Describe the property, project, intended use, decision to be supported, and desired outcome in plain language.
• Gather available deeds, title material, plats, prior surveys, plans, permits, photos, flood documents, and project records without interpreting them.
• Note known access routes, gates, occupants, permission contacts, vegetation, obstructions, animals, construction activity, and scheduling constraints.
• Ask the surveyor which service fits the intended use and what records, fieldwork, markings, monuments, observations, or return visits are proposed.
• Clarify the drawings, reports, files, certifications, coordinate or datum information, hard copies, digital files, and revision process actually offered.
• Assign client, surveyor, owner, neighbor-contact, contractor, designer, lender, insurer, title, and authority coordination responsibilities as applicable.
• Ask what credentials apply, how site conditions and record conflicts are handled, and which assumptions or exclusions could change the scope.
• Compare the same intended use, research, fieldwork, deliverables, responsibilities, timing, complete price structure, changes, and written terms.

Questions to ask a land surveyor

1. How will you confirm the intended use and determine the surveying service, records, fieldwork, and deliverables that fit it?
2. Which owner, title, deed, plat, prior-survey, project, public, or other records will you request or rely on, and who provides them?
3. What access, permission, clearing, notice, occupant, safety, weather, or site-readiness conditions affect fieldwork?
4. What research, measurements, markings, monuments, observations, return visits, or coordination are included or excluded?
5. What signed or sealed documents, maps, reports, hard copies, digital files, CAD or GIS files, certifications, revisions, or handoff items are proposed?
6. Who performs and oversees the work, what credentials apply, and how do timing, price structure, changes, acceptance, and written terms work?

Write down the answers and any exclusions. If two proposals describe different work, clarify the difference before comparing their totals. Leave unanswered points blank until the professional confirms them.

Official references and scope

These are original planning prompts, with AI assistance, prepared by PickYourPro.ai. Official links checked October 10, 2026. This pack has not been independently reviewed by a licensed specialist.

• Bureau of Land Management: Cadastral Tools ↗

  BLM provides official manuals, standards, land-description guidance, and Public Land Survey System resources for federal cadastral work. This worksheet uses that page only to prompt record and deliverable questions, not as a universal private-survey standard.

• FEMA: Paper application forms for map changes ↗

  FEMA provides forms and supporting materials for certain map-change requests. This worksheet mentions elevation-certificate or map-change deliverables only as optional scope questions when they are actually relevant.

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