Here's a terrible and possibly dangerous article for your perusal. Some will laugh, others will cry.
http://www.iseeidoimake.com/how-to-find-property-lines-and-corners-with-a-cell-phone-gps/
Thanks to Dave Baumgartner who shared this revelation on our Facebook page.
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15 foot accuracy...lol
Good!!!
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I assume the source data for their maps comes from various state and county GIS sites.?ÿ We know how ?great? that can be.
He does have some disclaimers about accuracy and the sample map says "Not a survey' but I'll bet there are a lot of states where the board might not approve of doing this for money.
Does my Samsung do GLONASS??ÿ I was surprised to see that mentioned.
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Thanks Wendell,
In order to stay competitive, I now know to quote $15.00 per corner whenever someone calls wanting to know how much to just find their corners.?ÿ So simple, and the landowner is my field crew; even better.?ÿ
The testimonial from the gent in New Mexico with a "mining claim" was priceless!?ÿ
?ÿ$60 to fetch some lat longs for someone? Wow, I'm the wrong business.
From his FAQ's
Q: What do land surveyors think about your business?
A: Some land surveyors agree that people can have legitimate reasons for wanting an online map that shows?ÿapproximateproperty corners and lines. Other land surveyors intentionally misrepresent our service as providing?ÿexact?ÿcoordinates for property corners. Those surveyors refuse to acknowledge that people can have legitimate reasons for wanting the approximate coordinates we provide. Reminder: If you need to locate your exact property corners and lines on the ground then please contact a licensed land surveyor.Q: I have a property line dispute with my neighbor. Can your service help me?
A: Maybe. On average the GPS coordinates that we produce should be within 30 feet of accurate. No, the data we produce is not survey-grade, however for many purposes it is close enough. But if you need to know exactly where your property corners and lines are located, then you need to contact a surveyor. While the online map links we produce are not surveys they can help you decide whether or not you need to hire a surveyor.
So he adds a navigation app to a tax map?ÿwith an aerial background. Seems like a useful tool for owners of rural tracts. You've been able to pick up a tax map with a background aerial for what, 80 years now? +/- 30 feet seems about right.
?ÿ$60 to fetch some lat longs for someone? Wow, I'm the wrong business.
nope, $30. I just want "one line"
Its either a survey or not. Kinda like being pregnant, she is or she ain't. No inbetween.
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Its either a survey or not. Kinda like being pregnant, she is or she ain't. No inbetween.
Schroedinger would say she was both pregnant and not pregnant, until the result of the pee test is known.
I wrote and suggested that the best use of a cell phone to find your corners was to use it to search for a Land Surveyor near by, and then call them!
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Ring, ring ...
Again, people spending $200-500k on property and not seeing the value in paying $2k or less to find out exactly what they're buying or have already bought.
Maybe the state societies need to start a marketing and advertising campaign, showing some home buying disasters that could've been avoided by having a survey.?ÿ And maybe also include something along the lines of, "your realtor has no real knowledge in land boundaries and is unqualified to give an opinion on boundary location, and there is no recourse if/when you end up in a boundary dispute with your neighbor, based on said realtor's statements".?ÿ
?ÿ$60 to fetch some lat longs for someone? Wow, I'm the wrong business.
nope, $30. I just want "one line"
Haha!
?ÿ$60 to fetch some lat longs for someone? Wow, I'm the wrong business.
nope, $30. I just want "one line"
Haha!
On a tangent to that, the company I work for in Heavy Highway work has a couple properties that we've contracted with a local firm in that area to prepare mining permit drawings for borrow pits.?ÿ I was given a cad file that had sparse data for the proposed pit limits.?ÿ I sent the information to stake the corners out so the clearing sub could start clearing the remaining portions of the proposed excavation.?ÿ My chief calls me and says there is a problem, the pit limits are over the property line by 20-30 feet.?ÿ Our project manager calls the permit drawing creator and asks why the pit is encroaching the adjoining property.?ÿ Their response back was "Our contract called for no boundary or topo survey to be done. It's all based on GIS data."?ÿ A co-worker asks me how did they get in this situation and my simple response was "Because no one consulted me on what should be done."
Now I've got to try to piece this "proposed" pit together and align it to the property with zero setback information.