I'm following a description.
It calls out a course from the west into a creek.
Thence with the creek 8 courses for about 70', then leaves creek and heads east.
8 courses in 70'!!
The most offensive is S42-34-40E, 8.42 feet; thence S41-59-18E, 2.20 feet
But those aren't the only ones, I figure two maybe three courses should cover it with one maybe two angle points.
I think we all know how this was done.
Let's not blame the computer, that's a user error. In fact, C3D can be used to weed out a lot of those calls automatically or semi-automatically if the user. The map cleanup feature can be your friend in a situation like that.
All this being said, I have actually had to write descriptions with pages of calls like that. Not for a stream, but some crazy buffer lines based on the holes and surrounding lots of a golf course development. Legal Aid paid for itself in one use.
I'm working on one of those descriptions right now and simply used southeasterly along the 'creek or OHW' a distance of 100' more less to ......
The creek and ohw line change so there is no need to accurately describe them in most instances.
Got the field survey back, 8 courses down to two, 7 angle points down to one.
Creeks and prescriptive roads.
I hate plotting up 20 deed calls along a gravel or chip and seal roadway, then looking at the screen and seeing that two straight lines would have all the points within half a foot of one of the two lines. Or the other option - one curve would have encompassed all of the the points within a very reasonable amount of wiggle room.