John E Tulloch

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FIG Perspective The Future of Surveying
Surveying and Spatial Information Victoria 2008
Summit
John E Tulloch Surveyor-General of
Victoria Chair, Surveyors Registration
Board Registrar of Geographic Names 17 September
2008
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FIG Working Week 2008
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The Role of FIG

• Professional Development
• - Global forum for professional discussions and
  interactions
• - Conferences, symposia, commission working
  groups, ..
• Institutional Development
• - Institutional support for educational and
  professional
• development at national and international
  level
• Global Development
• - Cooperation with international NGOs such as
• the UN agencies, World Bank, and sister
  organisations
• - Joint activities and common policy-making to
• reduce poverty and enforce sustainable
  development

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FIG Structure

• Professional Development
• through commission based sessions
• 1. Professional Practice
• 2. Professional Education
• 3. Spatial Information Management
• 4. Hydrography
• 5. Positioning and Measurement
• 6. Engineering Surveys
• 7. Cadastre and Land Management
• 8. Spatial Planning and Development
• 9. Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
• 10. Construction Economics and Management

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FIG publications
WWW.FIG.NET
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Challenges for Victorian Land Surveyors

• Vocational
• - the profession positioning itself to be the
  foremost authority on the provision of
  Geospatial information
• - demonstrating its capacity to deal with
  emerging environmental markets of EcoTenders,
  carbon credits and water rights
• - maintaining expertise in land tenure related
  to contemporary building ownership, land based
  securities and utility infrastructures
• - adapting technology advances for survey
  services and d/b applications
• Sustainable
• - justifying to government the retention of a
  regulated profession
• - recognising the unique value of our cadastral
  surveying expertise by charging appropriate fees
• - actively promoting surveying as a career

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FIG Congress Sydney, 11-16 April 2010