Industry Code: 86410
This industry includes businesses that specialize in the transfer of aerial, geodetic, marine, weather or other field data onto maps through processes of scribing, plotting, or transcribing. Businesses which provide seismic data processing services are classified elsewhere.
Operation Details:
Businesses in this industry employ cartographers who utilize digital computer systems and plotters to produce maps from raw field data. The types of maps produced by businesses in this industry include street, topographical (land terrain), hydrographical (water depth), weather, etc.
Industry activities include updating master maps, decoding various types of information, and affixing information on to maps by means of map symbols which identify objects, characteristics, distances, etc.
The equipment of the trade varies from standard drafting tools to stereoplotters and computerized systems.
Clients of map makers may include construction, petroleum, private or public sectors.
Underwriting Considerations:
This industry does not include businesses which have the technology and equipment to physically acquire and retrieve data from the field environment and assemble this data in the form of logs, drilling reports, production statistics, survey reports, etc. These employers would be classified in the appropriate industry for the business being conducted.
Mapping conducted in conjunction with geological and geophysical services, or seismic data processing (which is mapping underground formations), would be classified in industry 86411, Geological and Geophysical Services or industry 09200, Seismic Geophysical/Mineral Exploration.
Aerial survey operations, with related map making services, are classified on a compulsory basis in industry 50203 (Flight Operations, Miscellaneous).
Businesses which provide land surveying services are classified in industry 86401.
Industry Custom Pricing: Waiving Cost Relief Option and Modified Experience Rating
This industry has chosen to participate in Industry Custom Pricing. Effective January 1, 2010, employers in this industry participate in the Waiving Cost Relief option and effective January 1, 2017, employers are also participating in the Modified Experience Rating option.
Under the Waiving Cost Relief option, costs related to the aggravation of a pre-existing condition will not be removed from the experience record of employers classified in this industry. In return, the portion of premiums collected to fund retroactive cost relief has been removed from the industry rate, resulting in a reduction in WCB premium rates for the industry.
With Modified Experience Rating option, the following experience rating features will be used in determining the premium rate for employers in the Large Employer Experience Rating Plan:
- Maximum discount or surcharge of 60%
- Participation rate of 1% for every $2000 in premiums
- Maximum participation of 100%
- Maximum experience used of 100%
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Map Making
Rate Group History:
In 1996, rate group 775910 was merged with rate group 775200, recognizing similarities in professional services offered.
This industry includes businesses that specialize in the transfer of aerial, geodetic, marine, weather or other field data onto maps through processes of scribing, plotting, or transcribing. Businesses which provide seismic data processing services are classified elsewhere.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Map Making
Operation Details:
Businesses in this industry employ cartographers who utilize digital computer systems and plotters to produce maps from raw field data. The types of maps produced by businesses in this industry include street, topographical (land terrain), hydrographical (water depth), weather, etc.
Industry activities include updating master maps, decoding various types of information, and affixing information on to maps by means of map symbols which identify objects, characteristics, distances, etc.
The equipment of the trade varies from standard drafting tools to stereoplotters and computerized systems.
Clients of map makers may include construction, petroleum, private or public sectors.
Underwriting Considerations:
This industry does not include businesses which have the technology and equipment to physically acquire and retrieve data from the field environment and assemble this data in the form of logs, drilling reports, production statistics, survey reports, etc. These employers would be classified in the appropriate industry for the business being conducted.
Mapping conducted in conjunction with geological and geophysical services, or seismic data processing (which is mapping underground formations), would be classified in industry 86411, Geological and Geophysical Services or industry 09200, Seismic Geophysical/Mineral Exploration.
Aerial survey operations, with related map making services, are classified on a compulsory basis in industry 50203 (Flight Operations, Miscellaneous).
Businesses which provide land surveying services are classified in industry 86401.
Industry Custom Pricing: Waiving Cost Relief Option and Modified Experience Rating
This industry has chosen to participate in Industry Custom Pricing. Effective January 1, 2010, employers in this industry participate in the Waiving Cost Relief option and effective January 1, 2017, employers are also participating in the Modified Experience Rating option.
Under the Waiving Cost Relief option, costs related to the aggravation of a pre-existing condition will not be removed from the experience record of employers classified in this industry. In return, the portion of premiums collected to fund retroactive cost relief has been removed from the industry rate, resulting in a reduction in WCB premium rates for the industry.
With Modified Experience Rating option, the following experience rating features will be used in determining the premium rate for employers in the Large Employer Experience Rating Plan:
- Maximum discount or surcharge of 60%
- Participation rate of 1% for every $2000 in premiums
- Maximum participation of 100%
- Maximum experience used of 100%
Rate Group History:
In 1996, rate group 775910 was merged with rate group 775200, recognizing similarities in professional services offered.