Frankly if all they do is transcribe 'professional speak' into lines on a map it's hardly surveying. Surveying should be the initial generation of the boundaries.

The lines on a surface map are called isobars. Isobars are lines of constant pressure which are measured in units called millibars. The numbers indicate the amount of air pressure, in millibars ...

Dashed lines drawn in a "child-like manner" appeared in several locations on the map around land masses identified as Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia, the censors said.

They’ll be simple lines on a map. But they’ll be wrangled over in confounding, complicated ways for months on end. And by this time next year, the political lines drawn to reflect popul… ...

I just see a line on a map and that’s all I see, and I’m not the only one,” said Bob Nix, Deltona’s development services director. “We think urban growth boundaries are a good idea.