NAC625.795. Duties regarding geographic information systems.

     1. When contributing information to a geographic information system, a professional land surveyor must include for use as metadata a statement describing the positional certainty of each type of information contributed to the system by the professional land surveyor.

     2. When advising the developers of a geographic information system, a professional land surveyor must make recommendations concerning the appropriate methods for:

     (a) Conducting a survey for the development of the system; and

     (b) Compiling data for the contribution of additional information to the system after it is developed.

     3. A professional land surveyor shall comply with the provisions of NAC 625.651 to 625.795, inclusive, when conducting surveys to collect information that will be included in a geographic information system.

     4. As used in this section:

     (a) “Geographic information system” means a collection of computer hardware, software and data that is used for the collection, management, manipulation, analysis and display of information that includes a positional component.

     (b) “Metadata” means data that describes information used to describe an object.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Professional Eng’rs & Land Surv., eff. 11-14-97)