Don McKinnon
BSurv, NZCLS, RPSurv
Contact Details
Tel 64 3 479 7606
Email don.mckinnon@otago.ac.nz
Profile
Don's surveying career started in Upper Hutt as a trainee survey technician in 1974. He completed NZCLS in 1978 and worked for a variety of survey practices conducting cadastral, topographical and engineering surveys throughout the Wellington region.
In the late eighties he was self-employed and contracted to a private firm and the Central Institute of Technology as a tutor/lecturer for the NZCLS and NZCE surveying papers. From 1991-1993 Don completed his BSurv at the University of Otago and registered as a surveyor in early 1995. All his postgraduate experience has been with a private practice in Dunedin where he was responsible for the unit title development of a major retirement village and other major construction projects including the Carisbrook rugby ground terrace redevelopment.
Don joined the School of Surveying in 1999 as a Senior Teaching Fellow.
Teaching
- SURV 207 Cadastral Surveying 1
- SURV 307 Cadastral Surveying 2
- SURV 298 Introductory Field Course (cadastral module)
- SURV 399 Third Year Field Course
- SURV 457 Cadastral Surveying 3
Responsibilities
- Member of the School Undergraduate Committee
Department Level
Professional Activities
Professional Interests
- Limited title surveys
- Boundary surveys of deeds land and early Land transfer land circa 1870
- Multiple ownership of land
- Implementation of technology in cadastral surveying
- Boundary issues in unstable ground
- Free-station origins for Cadastral Surveys
Professional Collaborations
- Land Tenure
- Survey methods
- Engineering surveying
- Expert Witness – Wellington High Court
- Member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors
- Past –member of the Surveyor-General's Expert Committee for the Rules for Cadastral Surveying
Memberships
Refereed Journal Articles and Conference Papers
Goodwin, D., McKinnon, D.N., 'An Alternative Cadastral Survey Dataset for New Zealand', New Zealand Surveyor, #300, 2010
Un-refereed Professional Papers
McKinnon, D. N., 'Using Landonline Coordinates and GPS RTK Surveying', Survey Quarterly, June 2003.
McKinnon, D.N., 'Some Pleasure at the House of Pain', Survey Quarterly September 1998.