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RICS Client Guide Series

RICS Geomatics and the Mapping and Positioning Practice Panel (MAPPP) have now updated the entire series of groundbreaking geomatics client guides. These guides are designed and formatted to quickly and concisely explain the sometimes complex and often opaque world of geomatics and surveying to a non surveyor audience.

Related professions such as engineers, architects, developers and planners will find them invaluable and the guides can also act as an 'aid memoire' for professional and technical members of RICS.

The guides are also useful for helping clients and potential clients better understand the nuances of subjects such as map projection scale factor, scale, calibration and accuracy amongst others.

Map Projection Scale Factor

- Avoid the Potential Dangers of Scale Factor

This client guide seeks to explain in lay professional language geo related concepts such as localised grid systems, scale error/distortion and the effects of linking into national mapping co-ordinate systems.

Scale

- Avoid Tripping up Over Step Changes in Scale

This guide deals with the often misunderstood concept of scale and its relationship to spatial accuracy, survey specifications (including a quick topographic survey specification) and client needs.

Reassuringly Accurate

- Controlling Accuracy for Better Results

This guide deals with the critical issue of calibration and its relationship to accuracy, precision and project outcome. This guide offers essential advice for all survey clients and is an excellent 'aid memoire' for all surveyors.