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Dutch company marXact, known for their UNI-GR1 GNSS receiver that allows anyone to digitally survey with GPS, offers users that capability, thereby helping them not only to survey but also to comply with legal requirements.
A KLIC notification is a notification required to be made by contractors, cable companies and other groundworkers when they start digging in public space. The notification is submitted online to the Land Registry, of which the Kabels en Leidingen Informatie Centrum is part. The Kadaster then requests information from the network operator about the location of cables and pipelines, before sending it as a download link to a zip file containing cable and pipeline information to the applicant.
During excavation, the information received should be digitally present at the excavation site, this should be used to prevent excavation damage and dangerous situations. When excavators know where previously laid cables and pipes are located, they can take this into account during ground breaking.
Tommy van der Heijden, co-founder of marXact: "It is a good thing that it is mandatory to carry KLIC information digitally with you on site. Especially for our Dutch users, we have developed our own KLIC viewer and added it free of charge to our own surveying software so that the required information is easy to view. Before the obligation, we saw differences in data requests and delivery from excavation contractors, because not every party used the same working method. With this new requirement in the market, all parties know where they stand and you can do much more with the data. Before, during and after the excavation process. Requiring KLIC data to be carried digitally is a step in the digitization drive that I don't think is coming fast enough. The next step is the centimeter-accurate digital measurement of new cables and pipes, so that this information is also available for subsequent KLIC reports. That way excavation damage will be permanently prevented, now and in the future.
