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CHANGES IN SURVEYING PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: OPPORTUNITIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES
ABSTRACT
The surveying practice in Nigeria is facing enormous challenges as technology and legislation create a new paradigm for employment and career opportunities. The surveying profession is currently facing the biggest challenge in its modern history. Developments in technology have had a significant influence on the structure of the surveying and mapping industry. The demand for traditional surveying services has seen a shift in demand as the breadth of the information society widens.
The rapid technological change, micro-economic reform, procurement reform, privatization, regulation of the professions, and the Internet are placing pressures on traditional professional operations and structures of surveying practice in Nigeria. The situations which have never previously experienced, although the situations are beginning to present opportunities and challenges to surveying profession.
For example, issues central to our profession such as cadastral reform, updating of maps and spatial data infrastructures are grabbing the attention of policy makers as they are beginning to realize the importance of surveying and mapping services in economic development, environmental management and social stability. The surveying practice has been undergoing significant change and the extent, pace, unpredictability and impact of change is projected to increase.
The surveying practice in Nigeria is rapidly changing as the skills required in the past give way to new technology; and new opportunities for the provision of added value services is beginning to mount pressure in survey rules and regulations. One of the major challenges for the surveying profession in Nigeria is the ability to capitalize upon the change created by GIS, Digital Mapping, Location based services using GPS. This paper will describe a number of changing trends in the provision of surveying services in Nigeria including changes within the profession. Finally the paper will assess the potential impact of these changes in the current and immediate future.
Key words: Surveying, Profession, and Practice