@dougie?ÿ
QR code for the location Map, QR code for the legend, QR code for the drawing, heck the whole plat could be put on a index card. Or maybe it could be all put on one QR code.?ÿ
I think a Location Map shows where it is in the City, County or State and a Vicinity Map is the nearby street network.
My wish is that surveyors put the 4 section numbers around the section corner and label the other corners. I can eventually figure it out but it simplifies matters to have 1/4S or CN1/16th on there. Makes reading the map more efficient.
I don??t put vicinity maps on Survey maps. A coworker always does. Personal preference I guess.
I avoid such things to the extent possible.?ÿ Have wondered if anyone would notice if I were to simply insert a photo of the Earth taken from space.
The county I do most of my work in has PDF vicinity maps for download. In C3D they can be imported as linework using the command "pdfimport". It requires a little editing but it is consistent presentation across drawings.
I do maybe 5 a year. Takes all of twenty ?ÿminutes to open up our CAD version of our local gov tax maps and turn off the layers with unwanted line work and annotation, wblock out the area I want. Figure out the scale factor to insert at 1? = 1/2 mile or whatever, insert, explode, trim and tidy, add ??This survey?? and leader. Wam Bam Done.?ÿ
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@mike-marks In the PLSS it should be a trivial effort for a surveyor or even a GIS technician to locate the plat, for laymen and outside the PLSS, not so much.
Our clients are usually laymen. Land owners, engineers, attorneys and local planners use our plats. While there is a lot of information on our plats of no interest to anyone but other surveyors we are not making plats for land surveyors.?ÿ
NYSDOT has available B & W georeferenced 7.5' raster images of the USGS quads.?ÿ 2 sheets for each quad; 1 with only planimetrics and 1 with only topo.?ÿ insert into dwg on separate layer, add 2nd viewport in pspace, isolate all but but quad and boundary layers.?ÿ less than 5 minutes.
I am in favor of vicinity maps and try to draw them artfully. It is a requirement here and that may be because there have been so many survey maps recorded showing a rectangular parcel of land on a street with a house that is labelled "house" and that frustrates me even though I am not a layman.
I'm with you on this. Oftentimes a search by street name will turn up plans that are not referenced in any of the deeds you find. It's major PIA when researching a parcel and abutters, and trying to figure out whether or not a plan is pertinent to the survey when it lacks a locus map.
I'm less artful about it. I just run in the parcel lines for the local area from MassGIS, hatch in my subject parcel, and label the streets. It's pretty quick and easy.
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https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html
Here is a link to shape files for every road by county... And more. Road names are in the meta data.
Download, import trim add some text... Takes about 15-20 minutes to get a good looking Vic map.?ÿ And looks a lot better than an image sniped on your hard work.
Drafting is an art, and it's the only thing most clients see of your work. My clients were like many of you and didn't care...
But since he started using me for his drafting services, he's repeatedly gotten comments on the drawings. And I've gotten more work from some of his colleagues asking about it.
You spend days working on a project, and don't pay attention to the little details. All the end client sees is a fuzzy image and wonders how much effort you actually put into his work.
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This just in!?ÿ From Washington State:
"As previously announced, WAC 332-130 is being revised.?ÿ The proposed revisions are:
- ?ÿRemoving the requirement of the graphic representation of the survey??s location to enable indexing by the Auditor??s office."