Any ideas on what AUS stands for?
KM may not approve. Wipe that silly grin off your face, and the north arrow too. Stick figures will do!
(Grin)
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> Any ideas on what AUS stands for?
Austrailia, with the arrow pointing down.
this is from a deed exhibit from 1953 in Lake County, MT
Dang- Nate I wasn't planning on going there....;-)
It looks like the established property line goes through the middle of the parcel ------x------x------x------
"AUS"...Gold Standard of North arrows??
interestingly- here is the cert. that accompanied the exhibit...
assumed? if they would have used the standard abbreviation for "assumed" it would be ass.
Look at the cert. AUS is the Surveyor initials.
Doh! (Facepalm)
He must think the whole world revolves around him. 😉
> KM may not approve.
No, KM definitely approves of folks in PLSSia using the most elaborate North-and-South arrows imaginable. I mean, if the map is basically just the usual cookie cutter part of the PLSS, the surveyor has to add *something* to jazz things up, right? In Texas, of course, the boundaries are the natural center of interest, so a North arrow that is as simple as possible makes sense.
Good call on the AUS.
Here’s one in the same vein I stumbled across (on this board, likely) from a 1924 Cal. Survey:
The surveyor’s name was Edward M. Lynch.
Although Kent preaches simplicity of form and design, you know that something as eye-catching and practical as the EML arrow is going to make a huge impression on him. I was hesitant to post it here because it is inevitable that north arrows like the one below will soon be gracing his plats:
> Good call on the AUS.
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> Here’s one in the same vein I stumbled across (on this board, likely) from a 1924 Cal. Survey:
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Most surveyors will have discovered that the choice of North Arrow nearly invariably follows the axiom laid out in "The Maltese Falcon", namely, "the cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter". :>
There is a whole class of North Arrow whose purpose is to distract the viewer of the map from the actual details presented upon it and to direct their attention to some bits of extraneous frippery posing as a symbol pointing to the North direction used in compiling the map.
Word of the day - "frippery"
frip·pery noun ?fri-p(?-)r?
plural frip·per·ies
Definition of FRIPPERY
1 obsolete a : cast-off clothes b archaic : a place where old clothes are sold
2a : finery; also : an elegant or showy garment b : something showy, frivolous, or nonessentialc : ostentation; especially : something foolish or affectedly elegant
I'm going to intentionally add some frippery to a map today!
Winner!
Gaudier Platter
"the cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter"
You made me smile. I have noticed that often my title block and company name was left off of copies when I saw reproductions of my plats. I decided that a north arrow that contained my company name and a distinctive look would be a marketing tool. So below is my “Gaudy Platter”.
Why do you like complicated confusing boundaries that are ambiguous and problematic, but a simple north arrow? Maybe you could use a flashy, ambiguous north-arrow down there in texas to further confuse the surveyor and the landowner.....? In PLSSia, they/we could just draw a simple straight-line north area next to a bunch of squares and be done with our survey in seconds.:-)
> Why do you like complicated confusing boundaries that are ambiguous and problematic, but a simple north arrow?
Well, the whole point of the map is to facilitate an economical and lucid explanation of some boundary situation that may well be problematic. Adding doo-dahs to the map that carry zero information other than some very basic fact such as the North direction on the map are essentially cartographic graffiti. One has to ask why the person who drew the map wanted to add such distractions. In other words: "Why such gaudy patter?"
