The Survey staff:
- Preserves, improves and maintains the City's century-old boundary monument system
- Creates topographic site maps to support design and pre-construction projects
- Provides stakeout and support services for City construction projects
- Retraces and analyzes boundaries, prepares deeds and provides expert testimony for other City departments
Some information about survey terms:
Boundaries are property lines usually created by written documents, such as land deeds. These documents give specific location information. Sometimes boundaries have not been written, but are established through long-time occupation of land.
Monuments are objects that mark corners of property. In the past, many monuments were natural, such as a tree or a creek. Today, monuments are set by surveyors and are man-made, such as a pipe or an iron pin.
List of Maps and Descriptions
| Our Oakland | Search for services, programs and amenities in a user defined area. Best used with Mozilla Firefox |
| Citizens' Police Review Board | Entering a street address returns the City Council District information for that address. |
| CrimeWatch | Request crime data by proximity to an address or known location, such as a school, or query by a geographic boundary. You can then produce maps and/or reports from this information. You can also view Crimereports of Oakland. |
| CyberWatch | CyberWatch is a subscription service that provides automated email alerts of recent crime activity for a desired area of interest. |
| CEDA Map Viewer | Allows users to lookup parcel based information along with planning and zoning designations. |
| City Owned Properties | Allows users to identify and search City Owned Properties, based on a number of attributes. |
| OPD Closed Calls | |
| Parks and Recreation Story Map | Map tour of convenient, affordable, accessible indoor and outdoor rental facilities and pools offered by Oakland Parks and Recreation. |
| Street Sweeping | Allow users to lookup street sweeping schedules around their address within City of Oakland |
| Tree Viewer | Allows members of the public to view information about the City’s street trees. You are able to determine the size, species and address where they are located. |