The actual issues of computer-aided drafting, maintaining and storing the mining surveyor graphic documentation. Particular attention is given to the need of regulatory document creation. The problem of computer processing and storage of surveying information is posed and handled.
A list of revised and newly developed surveying normative and methodical documents is given. The analysis of new editions of the Instructions for the production of surveying in the mining, oil and gas industry. A number of new mine-surveyor documents are proposed for development.
For higher accuracy of the closure of faces in the limiting holing of workings of one or more mines one has suggested the methods for calculations of optimal number of gyro-sides and the selection of sites for their position. The formulas for calculations are given. The software is recommended, and the calculation examples are cited.