21 March is dedicated to surveyors. This year’s Global Surveyors’ Day (Home – Global Surveyors Day) event takes place in Paris, organised by the Association of Francophone Surveyors of the FGF and co-organised by the FIG and the CLGE – the world and European federations of surveyors.
One of the purposes of World Land Surveyors’ Day is to highlight the individual surveyors who have shaped the history of the measurement of the Earth and thus co-created the surveying profession.
The French colleagues who organised this year’s event chose and highlighted the French mathematician, astronomer and surveyor Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre François André Méchain, the French inventor of the metric system, both of whom have contributed substantially to the development of the profession.
Congratulations to all our colleagues on Global Surveyors’ Day!
