Client sent me a text message saying that their insurance company is wanting me to add a note, to an elevation certificate, for a camp that only has access by boat, and is about five miles downriver from the closest boat launch.
Keep in mind that the rives is very winding and the camps do not have physical addresses, or postal delivery.
They are wanting me to add the miles from the boat launch, and the number of camps to the site.
Yeah, that is not going to happen. 😉
google earth bro,
I would recommend that you also include a reproducible bearing from the boat launch to the dwelling.
That's what I'm saying.
"As the crow flies?"
Use your handheld to determine the Latitude and Longitude of the ramp and camp or pick them out of Google, it if you feel comfortable with doing it that way. They couldn't ask for a better location identifier.
Is this on the Tangipahoa below the Bedico confluence?
I spent a bunch of weekends and time down there during summers in the 90s.
An old friend has had a family camp down there since the 60s. He inherited it.
He is a prof at SELU and spends all of his summers down there and other breaks.
I was asked to do some parcel surveying there about 5 years ago.
A major LA land holding company who held the camp leases where divesting and selling to owners. I had met with them and it was a Go but I had to crawfish out for personal reasons. If I remember correctly, there was also a similar divesture in the late 90s and the survey crew just pulled up to the camps and threw irons and stakes on the bank in front of the lots and told the owners to set the boundary frontage. Told them to not mind the rear because it was swamp.
The Google earth and Bing imagery is not great for that area. Maybe it is better up river.
I see from the imagery that someone has built pretty big nice looking camps at the mouth on the Lake. I used to go there and look for points and pottery shards and find a lot.
This was the location of one of the original Spanish camps and prior to that it was an Indian trading camp. Sort of the only civilized area in the region, so to speak...so hence, It would be common to find human bones, bricks from crypts from the long lost cemetery that was there.
Anyway, try checking the LA GIS maps for co-ords. and se if they agree with G.E.
Yes, I recommended you to them.
"Anyway, try checking the LA GIS maps for co-ords. and se if they agree with G.E."
I don't need to, this was not a post about what I should do, it is a post about what I am not going to do.
yea. I understood that but was just trying to make the point that G.E. may not be a solution for coordinates here.
Cliff made that point the other day in a post.
Thanks for the referral but I would rather go fishing down there than survey.
> I would recommend that you also include a reproducible bearing from the boat launch to the dwelling.
I bet The Cow fell over laughing on that one. 😀
I always check my coords. against 3 different programs, and they always land right on the roof, so if they cannot find the camp I will offer to take them down there for maybe $300 and then go fishing for the rest of the day.
Robert
That's SLU. Back in '68 (when I was there), the running gag was to change the name from SLC to Southeastern Louisiana University of Technology.
Robert..edit
a few years back the state changed some of the names if the state universities to Univ. Of La at suchandsuch to try to drop the geographic appellation.
Northwest La Univ. was changed to Univ. of La at Monroe.
Southeastern and Northwest Univ refused to make the change.
Southwest La Univ was changed to Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette.
thus
it is now known as French expression "Ouu-La-La" 🙂
You are right about the SLU (see disclaimer below).
Most people here call it Southeastern. Swmbo got her master degree there plus another post grad certification in school counseling.
