How To Find Property Lines With Gps

How to Survey Your Holding Lines using a GPS Receiver

Michael T. asks:
How tin can I employ ExpertGPS to survey my property lines?

Use the Project Waypoint dialog in ExpertGPS to enter each of your property lines

It's relatively easy to find all of the corners of your property using ExpertGPS. You'll need a plat, mortgage map, or legal country survey of your property, showing the altitude and bearing from each corner to the next. You'll also need to find One corner or monument on your state, to use as a starting point.

Using your GPS or the mapping tools in ExpertGPS, mark a waypoint at the starting corner that y'all've located on your property. In ExpertGPS, right-click on the starting waypoint, and click Project Waypoint. This volition bring upwards the Project Waypoint dialog, where yous'll enter the distance and bearing of each call in your survey map. ExpertGPS allows yous to enter bearings in True or Magnetic degrees, or aligned to a UTM, state airplane, or national coordinate grid. You can likewise enter a custom declination, which can exist extremely useful in entering historical deeds where the magnetic field has drifted over time, or when entering plats with a non-standard basis of bearing.
ExpertGPS lets you map your property bounds from a plat map or legal land survey

On the map, you'll see a ruby-red preview line projecting from the starting waypoint. It shows y'all the property line leading to the side by side purlieus corner, based on the altitude and begetting y'all entered.

Cheque off the Move to Waypoint and Add to Route boxes. When you lot click Project, ExpertGPS volition create a new waypoint at the holding corner, and prompt you for the next call (bearing and distance). Move effectually the belongings in this manner until you have entered all of the calls.

You tin can at present send the waypoints and route to your GPS, and head out into the field to locate the property corners. Apply the Go To control on your GPS to navigate to each waypoint marking the corner of your land.

Delight realize that there are limits to the accuracy of your GPS receiver. This technique should get you within a few feet of a holding corner and volition help you narrow downwards where to search to find missing survey monuments. To create a legal land survey that you can use for selling property or establishing boundaries, you should consult a licensed land surveyor.

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