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SDDOT / Road Design / Survey Data
Survey Manual - This Highway Surveying
Manual presents surveyors' methods and departmental rules that apply to highway surveying
operations of the South Dakota State Department of Transportation. This manual is intended
to help standardize surveying practices throughout the Department and to be a useful tool
for SDDOT survey crews. Updating this manual will be a continuing process and revisions
will be issued periodically.
HARN Map - The High Accuracy Reference
Network (HARN) map, shows the location of all the survey points in our state that can be
used for the purpose of surveying. These monuments have, among other things, an exact
location (latitude/longitude) assinged to them.
County Bench Marks - The Bench Mark maps
show the location of our vertical control networks throughout the state. Each monument has
an elevation above mean sea level assigned to it.
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