The Survey of Pakistan, which emerged as a successor to pre-partition Royal Survey of India, is a National Surveying and Mapping Organization of the country. It is primarily responsible for all sorts of topographical land surveys of cis-frontier areas of the entire country. The basic products include map sheets on scale 1:50,000 and 1:250,000.

Function of SoP is to train departmental employees and potential candidates from private sector in Survey Training Institute in various disciplines of surveying and mapping at certificate and diploma level