Another Use of Color in Land Surveying Reports

Kent McMillan · 2017-04-04T05:11:00Z

I'm sure that I'm not the only person using Adobe Acrobat to mark up color photos to illustrate various conditions more easily and effectively than a map would convey. Here's a case in point,Recently, as I was marking lines for fence construction along a couple of sides of a tract, I noticed that one of the adjacent landowners was using a driveway / jeep trail across the tract to access his camp building on an adjacent tract. The "driveway" was most likely a segment of a pasture road that was in place when the two adjacent parcels were created and the adjacent tract didn't require the use of it for access, except as a convenience since it was there and didn't require any additional work on his part to improve it.To show my client the situation, I took the photo below, oriented so that the camera was looking right down the common line to make the boundary easy to draw in the photo. and used this as an attachment to a quick email report suggesting that it might be a good idea when the equipment operator was clearing the line for the proposed fence by scraping off brush and pushing surface rock to the side, to just clear a way on the adjacent owner's side of the line also for him to drive to his camp the next time he showed up at the property. It struck me as a neighborly gesture that would cost about fifteen minutes of machine time and head off some possible future argument.The key, was just showing what the situation was as easily as possible and, since a single picture can be worth a lot of words, this was what I sent:

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Larry Best, post: 421784, member: 763 wrote: I have used a phone app to similarly mark up photos. I was amazed at how well people (customers and lawyers) responded to it. Surveyors are used to looking at and understanding drawings, but everyone is used to photos.

Hi, I am curious what phone app is that? I tried various iphone apps and do not find them that useful or they downsize my resolution then what I put them on my plans, they are all pixelated.

Posted : April 9, 2017 6:49 pm

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