The rules governing land surveying in Wisconsin

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/code/a-e/a-e.html

Land Surveying

"Land Surveying" is the detailed study or inspection, as by gathering information through observations, measurements in the field, research of legal instruments, and data analysis in the support of planning, designing, and establishing of property boundaries. It involves the re-establishment of surveys and boundaries based on documents of record and physical evidence, as well as subdivision of land.
Land surveying can include associated services such as mapping and related data accumulation, construction layout surveys, precision measurements of length, angle, elevation, area, and volume, as well as horizontal and vertical control surveys, and the analysis and utilization of land survey data.