Bring Legal Descriptions to Life With a Metes and Bounds Plotter
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By Land id
Nov 10, 2020
The metes and bounds system is nearly as old as land ownership itself, with evidence of it existing from as far back as Ptolemaic Egypt and the Roman Republic.
If you’ve ever worked in engineering, construction or land surveying, you might have run across a very frustrating and confusing problem: the lack of a standardized measurement for the foot.
Geographic information systems, also known by the abbreviation GIS, are intricate technology that capture, store, manage and visualize data for geographic positions on the Earth’s surface. Though the complex nature of GIS suggests it was a recent invention, the first computerized GIS was actually born back in 1963. Since then, GIS has come in quite handy for mapping, urban planning, agriculture, and many types of land survey.
When you think of creative jobs, farming isn’t often the first occupation to come to mind - but maybe it should be. Managing a farm requires a significant amount of creative problem-solving in order to best use (and avoid destroying) the land. Luckily, farm mapping technologies have made it possible for farmers to get notably more useful and accurate data.
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