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y According to price and functionality offered , features can be located within 5 meters ( $200-300 GPS receiver) , within 1 meter ($6,500+ combined GPS receiver, mobile computer, and mapping software , such as the Trimble GeoXT with ArcPad ) , to within less than 10 centimeters ( $ 15 ,000+ survey-grade GPS receiver) . < 5 meters < 1 meter < 10 cm Fy In addition to defining the need for survey-grade data , the data collection process and personnel conducting the work should be certified and trained to do so . The State of Florida has established state statute 427 .001 -427 .037 which defines the role and data responsibilities of such personnel or contractors . The language of State Statute 427 .001 is paraphrased as follows ; For the purposes of this statute , a surveyor and mapper means a person who determines and displays the facts of size , shape , topography, tidal datum planes , legal or geodetic location or relation , and orientation of improved or unimproved real property through direct measurement or from certifiable measurement through accepted photogrammetric procedures . ( 4 ) ( a ) "Practice of surveying and mapping" means, among other things , any professional service or work , the adequate performance of which involves the application of special knowledge of the principles of mathematics , the related physical and applied sciences , and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence of the act of measuring, locating, establishing , or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, natural and manmade features in the air, on the surface and immediate subsurface of the earth, within underground workings, and on the beds or surface of bodies of water, for the purpose of determining, establishing, describing, displaying, or interpreting the facts of size , shape, topography, tidal datum planes, legal or geodetic location or relocation, and orientation of improved or unimproved real property and appurtenances thereto, including acreage and condominiums . ( b ) The practice of surveying and mapping also includes , but is not limited to , photogrammetric control; the monumentation and remonumentation of property boundaries and subdivisions ; the measurement of and preparation of plans showing existing improvements after construction; the layout of proposed improvements ; the preparation of descriptions for use in legal instruments of conveyance of real property and property rights ; the preparation of subdivision planning maps and record plats, as provided for in chapter 177 ; the determination of , but not the design of , grades and elevations of roads and land in connection with subdivisions or divisions of land; and the creation and perpetuation of 73 + GIS Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan Chapter 1 - Departmental GIS Needs Assessment