A standard of surveying mutually proposed by the ALTA (American Land Title Association) and the American Congress on mapping and surveying that fuses components of the limit survey, contract survey, and topographic survey. ALTA/ACSM surveys, much of the time abbreviated to ALTA surveys, are regularly required for land exchanges.

Today's business land exchanges are frequently complicated and include numerous destinations that have need of land title surveys in a number of states. ALTA, in combination with the American Congress on mapping and surveying, and the People of Professional Surveyors, has set up fundamental institutionalized necessities for land title surveys, otherwise called ALTA/ACSM land surveys or ALTA surveys. These land title survey prototypes give consistency the nation over and a clearer comprehension of the property.

These Land Surveys are made mandatory by most banks, title safety net providers, lawyers and purchasers of business land. ALTA surveys demonstrate the surveyor's discoveries about the property limits, easements, infringements, upgrades and utilities inside of the property. ALTA surveys additionally give data in regards to zoning and flood zone assignment of the property.