The Surveying and Mapping Services industry in Canada has weathered uncertain conditions as downstream industries including residential, commercial, industrial construction and government authorities, fared with volatility brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry's performance is largely tied to developments in residential and nonresidential construction markets, which fuel both private- and public-sector spending.As Canadian oil, gas and mining companies cut back spending on exploration and development projects in response to falling commodity prices, and construction stalled in resource-rich provinces, demand for surveying and mapping services for these projects fell. While growth from the residential construction market helped offset some losses, rising interest intended to offset rising inflation have hampered residential demand. Thus, even as energy prices came roaring back, many surveyors saw a reduction in demand. Over the five years to 2023, industry revenue has been contracting at a CAGR of 1.7% and is expected to reach $1.7 billion, including an expected drop of 3.2% over the current year.The return to growth of downstream construction markets will likely keep industry demand afloat moving forward. In addition to solid demand from industrial building construction as commodity prices remain high, housing market expansion will stimulate demand for cadastral, property line and construction surveying. The continued adoption of new technology will also enable companies to realize new efficiencies and improve the quality of their services, expanding sizable profit margins further. Industry revenue is forecast to rise at a CAGR of 1.2% to $1.8 billion over the five years to 2028.

Layers in this dataset represent Public Land Survey System subdivisions for Canadian County. Included are Townships, Sections, Quarter Sections and Government Lots. This data was created from 2019 to 2021 as part of a project to update county parcel data in partnership with ProWest & Associates (https://www.prowestgis.com/) and CEC Corporation (https://www.connectcec.com/). Corners were located to the quarter section level and additional corners were determined for the South Canadian River meanders based on the original government surveys. Quarter section corners were located using Certified Corner Records ( filed by Oklahoma licensed professional surveyors with the Oklahoma Department of Libraries where those records included coordinates. When a corner record could not be found or did not include coordinates, other interpolation methods were employed. These included connecting known corner record locations to unknown corners using data from filed subdivisions or from highway plans on record with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Where no corner records with coordinates were available and no interpolation methods could be used, aerial inspection was used to locate corners as the last option.Corner location accuracy varies as the method of locating the corner varies. For corners located using Certified Corner Records, accuracy is high depending on the age of the corner record and can possibly be less than 1 U.S. Foot. For corners located using interpolation methods, accuracy depends on the additional material used to interpolate the corner. In general, newer subdivisions and highway plans yield higher accuracy. For meander corners located using original government surveys, accuracy will be low due to the age of those surveys which date to the 1870's at the earliest. Additionally, corners that were located with aerials as the last available option cannot be assumed to be accurate.The data was built at the quarter section level first by connecting located corners and larger subdivisions were created from the quarter sections. For townships that extend into Grady County, township lines were only roughly located outside sections not in Canadian County.

Data published by Dame & Thaddeus (2022) significantly extends the Galactic plane CO survey of Dame, Hartmann & Thaddeus (2001) with complementary coverage of the entire northern sky (δ > -17°). The coverage extension was carried out with the same telescope as was used for the plane survey, the CfA 1.2 m, and perfectly meshes with its irregular boundaries in latitude. The merged survey is released by the authors in the form of CO line spectral data cubes. To create the LAMBDA map, the moment-masked data cube for the combined survey was integrated over +/- 36 km/sec, the full range over which significant emission is detected (see Figure 8 of Dame & Thaddeus 2022; the combined survey does not include the high-velocity observations available from the Dame, Hartmann & Thaddeus 2001 data). The velocity integrated brightness temperature map was then interpolated from the original rectilinear projection onto pixel centers appropriate for HEALPix Nside=256. The LAMBDA map is in units of K-km/sec, and a mask is provided indicating those portions of the sky that are unobserved.

Companies in the Surveying and Mapping Services industry have struggled with volatile downstream demand over the past few years. Demand for surveying services fluctuates in response to construction activity, as surveyors are a necessity for construction projects. Although demand for surveying services has risen in areas like heavy and civil engineering construction, as well as exploration, these gains haven’t been enough to counterbalance a drop in demand from residential building construction. Slow growth in the number of surveyors has constrained the market’s size, as more experienced surveyors are retiring while fewer young people are interested in pursuing surveying as a career. Overall, revenue is expected to have contracted at an annualised 3.9% over the five years through 2024-25 to $4.0 billion, including an anticipated plummet of 7.1% in 2024-25. Technological advancements in surveying and mapping services have influenced the industry’s performance. Cost-effective drone surveying technology with fast processing speeds has allowed some companies to provide value-added products that appeal to time-sensitive clients. However, some downstream clients with large capital resources have bypassed third-party surveying service providers, even though they can offer specialised services, and developed in-house surveying capabilities for cost efficiency, limiting surveyors’ pricing ability. Some large-scale surveyors have capitalised on a flurry of high-profile projects to build stronger reputations and expand their market share. Over the coming years, a recovery in key downstream sectors, including residential housing construction, as interest rates ease will improve the industry’s performance. As softening interest rates improve downstream conditions, surveyors working in construction markets will be in a better position to capitalise on improved downstream conditions. Investment in apartment and townhouse construction will also rally, driven by government efforts to solve housing supply shortages over the coming years. Industry revenue is projected to climb at an annualised 2.2% over the five years through 2029-30 to $4.1 billion.

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This series is part of the M.M.B.W.'s system of survey and plan records. The functions of these records and the relationships between them are described below.

Survey and Plan Records
of Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works and Melbourne Water

All of the survey and plan records relate to the survey of Melbourne metropolitan areas subsequent to subdivision (for which, see records of Crown lands for survey, subdivision, and sale/alienation). They document the administration of water supply, drainage, and sewerage responsibilities.

Further research is required to establish what relation (if any) existed between M.M.B.W. and the Surveyor-General in carrying out surveys of metropolitan areas. For example, were M.M.B.W. surveyors exclusively responsible for carrying out surveys in the metropolitan area, supplying information to the Surveyor-General?

The Base Plans were drawn directly from the Survey Books on a scale of 40'=1" (later 500m=1cm). The Record Plans (on various scales - e.g. 160'=1"; 200'=1"; 400'=1"; 800'=1") were drawn from the Base Plans. The planning process has passed through four systems :-

c1890s - c1950s : numeric system
"All plans produced between 1892 and 1953 were based on a random format; they were not related to a grid but to the general street pattern. Plans were numbered serially" M.M.B.W. Engineering Manual 1T-1S-O2 (December 1981) p.6.

c1950s - c1970s : alpha-numeric system
"In 1953 the Board devised the `Local Plane Rectangular System of Grid Co-Ordinates ... The subsequent map and plan series was produced on an imperial grid system based on an alpha-numeric, row and column method of identification." M.M.B.W. Engineering Manual 1T-1S-O2 (December 1981) p.6.

c1970s - by 1992 : metric system
The grid system was converted to metric and a regular programme of plan replacement from earlier systems (begun under the alpha-numeric system) to the new metric grid was continued.

by 1992 - : Facilities Information System (FIS)
Plans were and are being progressively converted to optical disk storage.

Plans in each of the systems preceding the FIS continued in current use until superseded by FIS. When a plan from an earlier system was re-drawn, it was cancelled and the new plan was renumbered in the system current at the time of re-drawing. Some plans from the numeric and alpha-numeric systems, however, were not subsequently re-drawn and remained in current use long after the system to which they belonged had been superseded.

As at December 1992, some plans from earlier systems have not been captured by FIS, so some plans in each of the preceding three systems remain in current use at the time of registration of the series.

Books of index plans exist. Using coloured transparent overlays to identify the controlling numbers/symbols in each system for each area, it is possible to identify the control number for a plan on any scale of the nominated area. Access to a copy of a book of index plans is necessary to retrieve the plans.

Water; Drainage; Sewerage Functions

These were three main functional areas of M.M.B.W. (later Melbourne Water). Copies of DP Plans and Record Plans were apparently made for each area on which were marked data relevant to their activities. In the 1950's, some of the plans were copied onto aperture cards.

Apparently all three functional areas worked out of a central plan room in Melbourne until the 1950's when a process of devolution to Regional Offices began. Water and sewerage functions were "regionalised" and the relevant plans went with them. The drainage function remained centralised.

While the position is not altogether clear, it appears that the set of plans transferred in 1992/1993 comprises plans which were drawn/redrawn at various times and kept in operational areas until M.M.B.W. began to assemble an "archive" or "record" set (? in the 1950's). If this surmise is correct, each plan now contained in the series in custody represents merely one generation of the plan with markings appropriate to that drawing and is not necessarily a complete historical record of works on the site.

Status of Plans at PRO

It is unclear whether or not the set of plans in custody contains a mixture of drawings from all three functional areas of M.M.B.W.. It is also unclear which generation of data is represented on each plan and whether superseded ("historical") data can be retrieved.

At one time, it appears that M.M.B.W. was depositing plans with the State Library (VA 2923). What status these copies have and how they relate to plans deposited with PRO and those still with Melbourne Water remains to be determined.

Survey Level Books (VPRS 8599)
Survey Field Books (VPRS 8600)

Survey books are the work books taken out by surveyors into the field. Each page contains drawings, plots and/or annotations showing angles and distances from guide points and (in some cases) the outline and details of subdivisions and constructions thereon. Familiarity with survey techniques is necessary to make full use of these records.

The books in these series are used by surveyors in the field to survey :-
allotments ("Field Books")
water levels/tables ("Level Books")

The books are numbered from 1 and are more or less chronological. A book may deal with one or several areas, depending on the tasks assigned to the surveyor whose book it was.

Older books in the series were examined as part of the transfer of M.M.B.W. archives in 1992 and were kept in storage at Melbourne Water's Mill Park facility (M.M.B.W. Archives). There were few gaps in the earlier part of the numerical sequence but these gaps grow more numerous towards the higher (later) part of the sequence. These more recent books were still in active use within the agency but it may be that the book numbers were allocated in blocks and that there were not books for all numbers.

It was said that there was no index to the books other than references to the survey book number on the "DP" plans, but there is reason to believe that a card index system exists (or existed).

For the first 500 or so of the level books, there are frequently two books (one red, one black). The black books are in series with the later part of VPRS 8599. It remains unclear what purpose was served by the red books, but by the time the books were filed at Mill Park, the two sequences were filed as one and it was decided to keep this order until the different purposes of the books could be ascertained.

Information from the Field and Level Books is used to draw up the Detailed Base Plans ["DP Plans"]. There are references on each of the DP Plans (by book number) back to the Field and Level books from which the information upon the Plan was derived. These references may be the only way back into the books unless indexes existed and can be found. Not all of the surveys in the books are cross-referenced on the Plans.

Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 40'=1" Numeric (VPRS 8601)
Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 40'=1" Alpha-Numeric (VPRS 8602)
Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 500m=1cm (VPRS 8603)

Information from the Field and Level Books is used to draw up the Detailed Base Plans ["DP Plans"]. There are references on each of the DP Plans (by book number) back to the Field and Level Books from which the information upon which the Plan was derived.

There were apparently two sets of Base Plans from which were drawn copies for use in Water Supply, Drainage and Sewerage. DP Plans were then made up for use in each of the three functional areas of M.M.B.W. :-

base plans (water)

base plans (drainage)

base plans (sewerage).

From these, "Record Plans" on larger scales were also made up.

Record Plans : 160'=1" Numeric (VPRS 8604)
Record Plans : 160'=1" Alpha-Numeric (VPRS 8605)
Record Plans : 2500m=1cm Metric records not transferred
Record Plans : 200'=1" (VPRS 8607)

The term "Record Plans" refers to plans on scales of 160'=1" and larger.

Plans : Not Otherwise Classified (VPRS 8608)

This series contains plans on a scale larger than 160'= 1" (2500m = 1cm) as well as small runs of plans in various formats and scales or used for various purposes. The series comprises :-
VPRS 8608/P1 : Record plans (topographic) 400'=1"
VPRS 8608/P2 : Record plans 800'=1"
VPRS 8608/P3 : Chronoflex plans : detailed plans 40'=1" alpha-numeric
VPRS 8608/P4 : Chronoflex plans for various purposes (various scales)
VPRS 8608/P5 : Not otherwise classified
VPRS 8608/P6 : Restored drawings (became part of VPRS 8609/P25)

Cartographic Department Manuals

A set of manuals dating from the 1980's was provided at the time of transfer of plan records from Mill Park in 1992. These contain historical and technical information about the conduct of the survey and mapping function.

Index Maps

The Index Map Book (VPRS 12758) provides access to several series of plans, survey field and level books. Large scale 40' to 1" (480:1) plans known as Detail Plans (VPRS 8601 and VPRS 8602) provide the most information, but plans of lesser scales can also be identified from the index map.

Further research is required to ascertain how the index maps are used to identify the maps in custody.

Survey Field Books Register (VPRS 8680)

The Field Book Registers for Field Books (VPRS 8600) Nos.1 to 3645. The Registers appear to have been compiled somewhere around 1900 and contains entries up to c1958. Early entries provide some guide to the area(s) covered by the book but are not to be wholly relied on as a complete summary of the contents of each book. Later entries which simply contain the statement

The global real estate surveying and mapping market is valued at USD XXX million in 2023 and is projected to reach USD XXX million by 2033, exhibiting a CAGR of XX% during the forecast period. The market's growth is attributed to the rising demand for accurate land surveys and maps for real estate development, urban planning, and infrastructure projects. Furthermore, advancements in technology, such as the adoption of drone surveys, laser scanning, and GIS software, are driving market expansion by enhancing surveying and mapping efficiency and accuracy. The real estate surveying and mapping market is segmented by type into land surveying and mapping, house surveying and mapping, and others. Land surveying and mapping account for the largest market share due to the high demand for land surveys for property boundary demarcation, land use planning, and construction projects. The house surveying and mapping segment is also witnessing significant growth due to the increased need for pre-purchase surveys, structural inspections, and property renovations. Key industry players include Morris-Depew Associates, RM Towill Corporation, Trimble, PASCO Corporation, Fugro, AECOM, Stantec, AEI Consultants, Tuofeng Surveying and Mapping, Mucheng Surveying, Nanyang Spatial Mapping, Zhongjiao Road & Bridge, Okay Information Technology, Zhongke Testing Technology, Centre Testing International Group, and TIRAIN Science & Technology.

This article introduces the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset, which provides rich survey data from more than 12,000 respondents in Colombia. Our panel survey – carried out in two separate waves in 2019 and 2021 – is representative at the level of each ‘Program for Development with a Territorial Focus’ (PDET, for its acronym in Spanish), the most war-affected regions and those targeted for peace agreement implementation. We describe the sample and compare support for the peace agreement in MAPS to other recent surveys in Colombia, showing how MAPS reveals regional variation obscured in nationally representative surveys. Regression analyses illustrate how the panel data allow us to explore how and why people’s perceptions of the agreement shift over time. The MAPS data will enable scholars to gain insights into the microfoundations of peacebuilding over time and across space.

The European Company Surveys (ECS) are conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). The European Company Survey (ECS) has been carried out regularly since its inception in 2004–2005 as the European Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work–Life Balance (ESWT). The second survey, under the new title European Company Survey, was completed in 2009, the third in 2013 and the fourth in 2019 in collaboration with Eurofound’s sister agency Cedefop. The main objectives of the survey are to: - map, assess and quantify information on company policies and practices across Europe on an harmonised basis - analyse relationships between company practices and their impact as well as looking at practices from the point of view of structures at company level, focusing in particular on social dialogue - monitor trends - contribute to the Agenda for Europe through mapping and understanding company policies and practices upon which Europe can build an economy that works for people, safeguarding EU core values – such as the importance of well-functioning dialogue – and fit for the digital age

This web map shows the locations of business area of the Survey on Business Establishments in Kowloon East 2018 in Hong Kong. It is a set of data made available by the Planning Department under the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the "Government") at https://GEODATA.GOV.HK/ ("Hong Kong Geodata Store"). The source data is in JSON format and has been processed and converted into Esri File Geodatabase format and uploaded to Esri's ArcGIS Online platform for sharing and reference purpose. The objectives are to facilitate our Hong Kong ArcGIS Online users to use the data in a spatial ready format and save their data conversion effort.For details about the data, source format and terms of conditions of usage, please refer to the website of Hong Kong Geodata Store at https://geodata.gov.hk/.

These data include the individual responses for the City of Tempe Annual Business Survey conducted by ETC Institute. These data help determine priorities for the community as part of the City's on-going strategic planning process. Averaged Business Survey results are used as indicators for city performance measures. The performance measures with indicators from the Business Survey include the following (as of 2023):1. Financial Stability and Vitality5.01 Quality of Business ServicesThe location data in this dataset is generalized to the block level to protect privacy. This means that only the first two digits of an address are used to map the location. When they data are shared with the city only the latitude/longitude of the block level address points are provided. This results in points that overlap. In order to better visualize the data, overlapping points were randomly dispersed to remove overlap. The result of these two adjustments ensure that they are not related to a specific address, but are still close enough to allow insights about service delivery in different areas of the city.Additional InformationSource: Business SurveyContact (author): Adam SamuelsContact E-Mail (author): Adam_Samuels@tempe.govContact (maintainer): Contact E-Mail (maintainer): Data Source Type: Excel tablePreparation Method: Data received from vendor after report is completedPublish Frequency: AnnualPublish Method: ManualData DictionaryMethods:The survey is mailed to a random sample of businesses in the City of Tempe. Follow up emails and texts are also sent to encourage participation. A link to the survey is provided with each communication. To prevent people who do not live in Tempe or who were not selected as part of the random sample from completing the survey, everyone who completed the survey was required to provide their address. These addresses were then matched to those used for the random representative sample. If the respondent’s address did not match, the response was not used.To better understand how services are being delivered across the city, individual results were mapped to determine overall distribution across the city.Processing and Limitations:The location data in this dataset is generalized to the block level to protect privacy. This means that only the first two digits of an address are used to map the location. When they data are shared with the city only the latitude/longitude of the block level address points are provided. This results in points that overlap. In order to better visualize the data, overlapping points were randomly dispersed to remove overlap. The result of these two adjustments ensure that they are not related to a specific address, but are still close enough to allow insights about service delivery in different areas of the city.The data are used by the ETC Institute in the final published PDF report.

The study is designed to provide data on the location of private plantations and companies, approximate number of workers by season, and their access to health services. The data will be used to inform CNM's mobile migrant worker strategy and to assist CNM's NGO partners to deliver services to this key group. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection.

Archaeological Survey Map. Visit https://dataone.org/datasets/doi%3A10.6067%3AXCV8XS5SP9_meta%24v%3D1319492174663 for complete metadata about this dataset.

This bundle comprises papers relating to mapping which have been received by the Survey Co-ordination Branch of the Lands Department. The papers include a provisional magnetic map of Australia and New Guinea prepared by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics; a provisional isogonic map of Australia and New Guinea for the epoch 1950.5; a provisional isogonic map of Australia and New Guinea showing predicted values for the epoch 1955.5; Magnetic Results of 1951 published by the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geophysics Division; Tables of Functions of the Segments of a Circle, by G.H. McIntosh; and Department of Lands: Annual Report, 1954-55.

(3/7138.2). 1 bundle.

Note:

This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

Chiayi County Shuishang Land Administration Office_Cadastral Map Retracement

This series was part of the M.M.B.W.'s system of survey and plan records. The functions of these records and the relationships between them are described below.

Survey and Plan Records
of Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works and Melbourne Water

All of the survey and plan records relate to the survey of Melbourne metropolitan areas subsequent to subdivision (for which, see records of Crown lands for survey, subdivision, and sale/alienation). They document the administration of water supply, drainage, and sewerage responsibilities.

Further research is required to establish what relation (if any) existed between M.M.B.W. and the Surveyor-General in carrying out surveys of metropolitan areas. For example, were M.M.B.W. surveyors exclusively responsible for carrying out surveys in the metropolitan area, supplying information to the Surveyor-General?

The Base Plans were drawn directly from the Survey Books on a scale of 40'=1" (later 500m=1cm). The Record Plans (on various scales - e.g. 160'=1"; 200'=1"; 400'=1"; 800'=1") were drawn from the Base Plans. The planning process has passed through four systems :-

* c1890s - c1950s : numeric system
"All plans produced between 1892 and 1953 were based on a random format; they were not related to a grid but to the general street pattern. Plans were numbered serially" M.M.B.W. Engineering Manual 1T-1S-O2 (December 1981) p.6.

* c1950s - c1970s : alpha-numeric system
"In 1953 the Board devised the `Local Plane Rectangular System of Grid Co-Ordinates ... The subsequent map and plan series was produced on an imperial grid system based on an alpha-numeric, row and column method of identification." M.M.B.W. Engineering Manual 1T-1S-O2 (December 1981) p.6.

* c1970s - by 1992 : metric system
The grid system was converted to metric and a regular programme of plan replacement from earlier systems (begun under the alpha-numeric system) to the new metric grid was continued.

* by 1992 - : Facilities Information System (FIS)
Plans were and are being progressively converted to optical disk storage.

Plans in each of the systems preceding the FIS continued in current use until superseded by FIS. When a plan from an earlier system was re-drawn, it was cancelled and the new plan was renumbered in the system current at the time of re-drawing. Some plans from the numeric and alpha-numeric systems, however, were not subsequently re-drawn and remained in current use long after the system to which they belonged had been superseded.

As at December 1992, some plans from earlier systems have not been captured by FIS, so some plans in each of the preceding three systems remain in current use at the time of registration of the series.

A book of index plans was created. Using coloured transparent overlays to identify the controlling numbers/symbols in each system for each area, it is possible to identify the control number for a plan on any scale of the nominated area. Access to a copy of a book of index plans is necessary to retrieve the plans. See VPRS 12758 Index Map Book.

Water; Drainage; Sewerage Functions

These were three main functional areas of M.M.B.W. (later Melbourne Water). Copies of DP Plans and Record Plans were apparently made for each area on which were marked data relevant to their activities. In the 1950's, some of the plans were copied onto aperture cards.

Apparently all three functional areas worked out of a central plan room in Melbourne until the 1950's when a process of devolution to Regional Offices began. Water and sewerage functions were "regionalised" and the relevant plans went with them. The drainage function remained centralised.

While the position is not altogether clear, it appears that the set of plans transferred in 1992/1993 comprises plans which were drawn/redrawn at various times and kept in operational areas until M.M.B.W. began to assemble an "archive" or "record" set (? in the 1950's). If this surmise is correct, each plan now contained in the series in custody represents merely one generation of the plan with markings appropriate to that drawing and is not necessarily a complete historical record of works on the site.

Status of Plans at PROV

It is unclear whether or not the set of plans in custody contains a mixture of drawings from all three functional areas of M.M.B.W.. It is also unclear which generation of data is represented on each plan and whether superseded ("historical") data can be retrieved.

At one time, it appears that M.M.B.W. was depositing plans with the State Library (VA 2923). What status these copies have and how they relate to plans deposited with PROV and those still with Melbourne Water remains to be determined.

Survey Level Books (VPRS 8599)
Survey Field Books (VPRS 8600)

Survey books are the work books taken out by surveyors into the field. Each page contains drawings, plots and/or annotations showing angles and distances from guide points and (in some cases) the outline and details of subdivisions and constructions thereon. Familiarity with survey techniques is necessary to make full use of these records.

The books in these series are used by surveyors in the field to survey :-

* allotments ("Field Books")
* water levels/tables ("Level Books")

The books are numbered from 1 and are more or less chronological. A book may deal with one or several areas, depending on the tasks assigned to the surveyor whose book it was.

Older books in the series were examined as part of the transfer of M.M.B.W. archives in 1992 and were kept in storage at Melbourne Water's Mill Park facility (M.M.B.W. Archives). There were few gaps in the earlier part of the numerical sequence but these gaps grow more numerous towards the higher (later) part of the sequence. These more recent books were still in active use within the agency but it may be that the book numbers were allocated in blocks and that there were not books for all numbers.

It was said that there was no index to the books other than references to the survey book number on the "DP" plans, but there is reason to believe that a card index system exists (or existed).

For the first 500 or so of the level books, there are frequently two books (one red, one black). The black books are in series with the later part of VPRS 8599. It remains unclear what purpose was served by the red books, but by the time the books were filed at Mill Park, the two sequences were filed as one and it was decided to keep this order until the different purposes of the books could be ascertained.

Information from the Field and Level Books is used to draw up the Detailed Base Plans ["DP Plans"]. There are references on each of the DP Plans (by book number) back to the Field and Level books from which the information upon the Plan was derived. These references may be the only way back into the books unless indexes existed and can be found. Not all of the surveys in the books are cross-referenced on the Plans.

Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 40'=1" Numeric (VPRS 8601)
Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 40'=1" Alpha-Numeric (VPRS 8602)
Detailed Base Plans ["DP"] 500m=1cm (VPRS 8603)

Information from the Field and Level Books is used to draw up the Detailed Base Plans ["DP Plans"]. There are references on each of the DP Plans (by book number) back to the Field and Level Books from which the information upon which the Plan was derived.

There were apparently two sets of Base Plans from which were drawn copies for use in Water Supply, Drainage and Sewerage. DP Plans were then made up for use in each of the three functional areas of M.M.B.W. :-

* base plans (water)
* base plans (drainage)
* base plans (sewerage).

From these, "Record Plans" on larger scales were also made up.

Record Plans : 160'=1" Numeric (VPRS 8604)
Record Plans : 160'=1" Alpha-Numeric (VPRS 8605)
Record Plans : 2500m=1cm Metric records not transferred
Record Plans : 200'=1" (VPRS 8607)

The term "Record Plans" refers to plans on scales of 160'=1" and larger.

Plans : Not Otherwise Classified (VPRS 8608)

This series contains plans on a scale larger than 160'= 1" (2500m = 1cm) as well as small runs of plans in various formats and scales or used for various purposes. The series comprises :-
* VPRS 8608/P1 : Record plans (topographic) 400'=1"
* VPRS 8608/P2 : Record plans 800'=1"
* VPRS 8608/P3 : Chronoflex plans : detailed plans 40'=1" alpha-numeric
* VPRS 8608/P4 : Chronoflex plans for various purposes (various scales)
* VPRS 8608/P5 : Not otherwise classified
* VPRS 8608/P6 : Restored drawings (became part of VPRS 8609/P25)

Cartographic Department Manuals

A set of manuals dating from the 1980's was provided at the time of transfer of plan records from Mill Park in 1992. These contain historical and technical information about the conduct of the survey and mapping function.

Index Maps

M.M.B.W. maintained an "index" to the maps which used transparent overlays to
* show the map/grid reference at each projection, and
* indicate which areas have been plotted in each projection.

A description of how the index maps were used to identify the maps may be found in the descriptive text for VPRS 12758 Index Map Book. PROV also holds an example of an index book marked "Chief Surveyor" of unknown date.

Survey Field Books Register (VPRS 8680)

There survives one volume of a "Field Book Register" for Field Books (VPRS 8600) Nos.1 to 2510. This Register appears to have been compiled somewhere around 1900 and contains entries up to c1929. Early entries provide some guide to the area(s) covered by the book but are not to be

This dataset does not contain any data files, pending acceptance and publication of an associated publication. Reach out to the Watershed Function SFA Data team (wfsfa-data@lbl.gov) and the dataset contact (Nicola Falco, nicolafalco@lbl.gov) if you have any questions.The package is composed of:- Classification vegetation map.zip: it contains the classification map (PNG, geotiff), which is derived from hyperspectral and LiDAR airborne data acquired by the NEON AOP in June 2018 using a machine learning approach, and the class code (csv) showing the corresponding vegetation class to pixel values.- Classification_reference_data.zip (csv): it contains reference data used in the machine learning procedure to predict vegetation and non-vegetation classes;- LiDAR_derived_products.zip (geotiff): elevation, slope, curvature, Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), Topographic Position Index (TPI), solar insolation, canopy height model (CMD). The topographical metrics were smoothed with a 5x5 pixel window;- Vegetation_indices.zip (geotiff): Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Nitrogen Index, Normalized Difference Water Index;- Cloud_shadow_urban_masks.zip (geotiffs): Masks of clouds and shadows that were applied to the mapping;- Covariates_10mGrid_vegetationClasses_topographicMetrics_soilProperties.zip (csv): 10-m gridded data that integrate all the previous datasets as well as geophysical data.Geotiffs can be visualized with any GIF software or library able to handle geotiff images. CSV can be open with any software able tomore » handle comma-separated values files.« less

Abstract

The survey data accompanies the working paper, "Mapping the Landscape of Transactions the Governance of Business Relations in Latin America”. This paper provides a picture of the landscape of transactions and one of the central motivations for this analysis is to ascertain whether there are meaningful patterns that emerge from datasets on how firms make agreements with their suppliers and customers.

A new set of survey questions is used to map governance structures that firms employ to support the successful implementation of transactions. Without imposing any a priori model, latent class analysis (LCA) discovers meaningful patterns of governance structures that readily match constructs in the literature. All governance structures use bilateralism. Bilateralism and formal institutions are sometimes complemented but never substitutes. For each firm, LCA provides estimates of the posterior probability that the firm uses each of the discovered governance structures.

These estimates can be used by researchers to go further, testing their own hypotheses relevant to Williamson’s discriminating alignment agenda using additional data from the Enterprise Surveys or elsewhere. Variations in the effectiveness of different governance structures across countries and across different types of firms and transactions are explored. Regional variation within countries is greater than cross-country variation. Foreign-owned firms, exporters, larger firms, and better-managed ones are more likely to use governance structures that complement bilateralism with use of the legal system or with the help of paid third-parties.

The responses were used to a unique set of questions posed in 2017 and 2018 as part of the ES implemented in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The surveys are based on interviews with business owners and top managers in a sample of officially registered firms with at least five employees in the manufacturing and services sectors. The surveys are designed to be nationally representative, using a stratified survey design.

Geographic coverage

The surveys are designed to be nationally representative (implemented in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay).

Analysis unit

The primary sampling unit of the study is the establishment.

Universe

The surveys are based on interviews with business owners and top managers in a sample of officially registered firms with at least five employees in the manufacturing and services sectors.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sampling methodology of the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey generates sample sizes appropriate to achieve two main objectives: first, to benchmark the investment climate of individual economies across the world and, second, to conduct firm performance analyses focusing mainly on how investment climate constraints affect productivity and job creation in selected sectors.

To achieve both objectives the sampling methodology:

• Generates a sample representative of the whole non-agricultural private economy that substantiates assertions about this part of the economy, not only about the manufacturing sector. The overall sample should include, in addition to selected manufacturing industries, services industries and other relevant sectors of the economy; and

• Generates large enough sample sizes for selected industries to conduct statistically robust analyses with levels of precision at a minimum 7.5% precision for 90% confidence intervals about:

i. Estimates of population proportions (percentages), at the industry level; and

ii. Estimates of the mean of log of sales at the industry level.

STRATIFICATION

The population of industries to be included in the Enterprise Surveys and Indicator Surveys, the Universe of the study, includes the following list (according to ISIC, revision 3.1): all manufacturing sectors (group D), construction (group F), services (groups G and H), transport, storage, and communications (group I), and subsector 72 (from Group K). Also, to limit the surveys to the formal economy the sample frame for each country should include only establishments with five (5) or more employees. Fully government owned firms are excluded as the Universe is defined as the non-agricultural private sector.

SAMPLE SIZE

Overall sample sizes for both Enterprise Surveys and Indicator Surveys are determined by the degree of stratification of the sample. The overall sample size depends on the decision of the sample size for each level of stratification. In all ES and IS the objectives of stratification are to allow an acceptable level of precision for estimates, at, first, different first, within size levels (small, medium, and large), second, at the different levels of regional stratification, and third, for the different sectors of stratification (which, as explained before, are chosen depending on the size of the economy).

Given that both the Enterprise Survey and the Indicator Survey include more than 100 indicators the computation of the minimum sample size required is complicated since it depends on the variance of each indicator. However, many of the indicators computed from the survey are proportions, such as percentage of firms that engage in X activity or chose Y action. In this case the computation of the sample size is simplified by the fact that the variance of a proportion is bounded. Assuming the maximum variance (0.5) the minimum level of precision is guaranteed.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

As part of the implementation of the surveys, twelve newly designed questions were administered, six concerning interactions with the firms’ suppliers and six on customer interactions. These questions were on the effectiveness of various methods of preventing or resolving problems when implementing agreements. When designing questions to be administered in a long survey and addressed to firms of all types, in different institutional settings, both conceptual and practical issues immediately arise.

Cleaning operations

The model parameters that authors use to estimate posterior probabilities are obtained from the software Latent GOLD (Vermunt and Magidson 2016), which does not provide exact parameters and applies some rounding (See the Excel file with estimated model parameters, attached as Related Material). As a result, the estimates of posterior probabilities calculated from the estimated model parameters differ somewhat from the estimates that are obtained directly from the Latent GOLD output.

Response rate

Non-response rates due to respondents spontaneously answering “Don’t Know” (which was not displayed as a possible option in the ‘show card’ listing possible responses). Fewer than 3% of the respondents chose at least one “Don’t Know” across the six questions about the methods of governing relations with suppliers and customers. The question with the most frequent occurrence of “Don’t Know” on relations with suppliers is on paid private dispute resolution (1.4% of the sample); for relations with customers, the question about personal trust had the highest item non-response (1.2% of the sample). Given the low item non-response rates, in our application of LCA we drop observations that have at least one “Don’t Know” in the relevant series of questions. This leaves 3,350 observations on relations with suppliers (97.7% of the sample), and 3,339 observations on relations with customers (97.3% of the sample).

Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Data for use with GIS mapping software, databases, and web applications are from Caliper Corporation and contain boundaries for Townships, First Divisions, and Second Divisions.

This package contains data on five text analysis types (term extraction, contract analysis, topic modeling, network mapping), based on the survey data where researchers selected research output that are related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is used as input to improve the current SDG classification model v4.0 to v5.0

Sustainable Development Goals are the 17 global challenges set by the United Nations. Within each of the goals specific targets and indicators are mentioned to monitor the progress of reaching those goals by 2030. In an effort to capture how research is contributing to move the needle on those challenges, we earlier have made an initial classification model than enables to quickly identify what research output is related to what SDG. (This Aurora SDG dashboard is the initial outcome as proof of practice.)

The initiative started from the Aurora Universities Network in 2017, in the working group "Societal Impact and Relevance of Research", to investigate and to make visible 1. what research is done that are relevant to topics or challenges that live in society (for the proof of practice this has been scoped down to the SDGs), and 2. what the effect or impact is of implementing those research outcomes to those societal challenges (this also have been scoped down to research output being cited in policy documents from national and local governments an NGO's).

Context of this dataset | classification model improvement workflow

The classification model we have used are 17 different search queries on the Scopus database.

SDG search queries version 4.0 (SQv4) have been created, Published here:

Search Queries for "Mapping Research Output to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" v4.0 by Aurora Universities Network (AUR) doi:10.5281/zenodo.3817443

A survey has been distributed to senior researchers to test the robustness of SQv4. Published here:

Survey data of "Mapping Research output to the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs" by Aurora Universities Network (AUR) doi:10.5281/zenodo.3798385

This text analysis has been made as one of the inputs to improve the classification model. Published here:

Text Analyses of Survey Data on "Mapping Research Output to the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs" by Aurora Universities Network (AUR) doi:10.5281/zenodo.3832090

Improved SDG search queries version 5.0 (SQv5) have been created, Published here:

Search Queries for "Mapping Research Output to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" v5.0 by Aurora Universities Network (AUR) doi:10.5281/zenodo.3817445

Methods used to do the text analysis

Term Extraction: after text normalisation (stemming, etc) we extracted 2 terms in bigrams and trigrams that co-occurred the most per document, in the title, abstract and keyword

Contrast analysis: the co-occurring terms in publications (title, abstract, keywords), of the papers that respondents have indicated relate to this SDG (y-axis: True), and that have been rejected (x-axis: False). In the top left you'll see term co-occurrences that a clearly relate to this SDG. The bottom-right are terms that are appear in papers that have been rejected for this SDG. The top-right terms appear frequently in both and cannot be used to discriminate between the two groups.

Network map: This diagram shows the cluster-network of terms co-occurring in the publications related to this SDG, selected by the respondents (accepted publications only).

Topic model: This diagram shows the topics, and the related terms that make up that topic. The number of topics is related to the number of of targets of this SDG.

Contingency matrix: This diagram shows the top 10 of co-occurring terms that correlate the most.

Software used to do the text analyses

CorTexT: The CorTexT Platform is the digital platform of LISIS Unit and a project launched and sustained by IFRIS and INRAE. This platform aims at empowering open research and studies in humanities about the dynamic of science, technology, innovation and knowledge production.

Resource with interactive visualisations

Based on the text analysis data we have created a website that puts all the SDG interactive diagrams together. For you to scrall through. https://sites.google.com/vu.nl/sdg-survey-analysis-results/

Data set content

In the dataset root you'll find the following folders and files:

/sdg01-17/

This contains the text analysis for all the individual SDG surveys.

/methods/

This contains the step-by-step explanations of the text analysis methods using Cortext.

/images/

images of the results used in this README.md.

LICENSE.md

terms and conditions for reusing this data.

README.md

description of the dataset; each subfolders contains a README.md file to futher describe the content of each sub-folder.

Inside an /sdg01-17/-folder you'll find the following:

This contains the step-by-step explanations of the text analysis methods using Cortext.

/sdg01-17/sdg04-sdg-survey-selected-publications-combined.db

his contains the title, abstract, keywords, fo the publications in the survey, including the and accept or rejection status and the number of respondents

/sdg01-17/sdg04-sdg-survey-selected-publications-combined-accepted-accepted-custom-filtered.db

same as above, but only the accepted papers

/sdg01-17/extracted-terms-list-top1000.csv

the aggregated list of co-occuring terms (bigrams and trigrams) extracted per paper.

/sdg01-17/contrast-analysis/

This contains the data and visualisation of the terms appearing in papers that have been accepted (true) and rejected (false) to be relating to this SDG.

/sdg01-17/topic-modelling/

This contains the data and visualisation of the terms clustered in the same number of topics as there are 'targets' within that SDG.

/sdg01-17/network-mapping/

This contains the data and visualisation of the terms clustered in co-occuring proximation of appearance in papers

/sdg01-17/contingency-matrix/

This contains the data and visualisation of the top 10 terms co-occuring

note: the .csv files are actually tab-separated.

Contribute and improve the SDG Search Queries

We welcome you to join the Github community and to fork, branch, improve and make a pull request to add your improvements to the new version of the SDG queries. https://github.com/Aurora-Network-Global/sdg-queries