I retraced 1969 BLM survey. Set witness corners in couple spots as buildings now over corner location. Listed distances from corner to corner ( not mon-mon)on plat with witness distance beside witness part of line.
Did this because BLM did it with adjoining survey and all cadastral plats I retrace are that way and because I wanted to make a direct comparison of plat distances to found distances. Reviewer says distances always are from monument to monument and that’s that. Do you always list distances mon – mon when setting on-line witness?
I like to put measured vs. record on most of my maps.
I do it the way you are doing it. The distance is from corner to corner, with the witness corner distance noted.
I guess you could do both (either labeled on or near line or by reference to a note or detail elsewhere on the drawing) to please the uninformed reviewer. Another option would be to tell the reviewer to either produce the requirement to do it his way or pound sand or sign and seal the plat himself......
I sort of use a hybrid, lets say you set two witness/reference monuments but they are on the boundary line. I put the distance from the corner #1 to monument #1 then monument #1 to monument #2 then monument #2 to corner #2. I then put the total distance in a larger font from corner to corner using arrows or letters so an attorney won't have to add the three distances together when writing a description.
Good Grief!
The idea is to show measurements so that the least number of viewers are confused.
What is important here?
The corners, of course.
Show the distance to the corners.
Since the corners are only "monumented" by the buildings, you have set WC's.
The witness corners are shown on line with the distance shown to the corner.
Isn't this drafting 201?
The problem comes when you are dealing with people who do not understand drafting or surveying. You can't satisfy everyone and sometimes not even yourself.
Thanks to the surveyors that contributed their method of platting with this thread. Unfortunately it reminded me why the public is confused, we can’t even agree as surveyors to an extremely common and simple occurrence as to what a standard of practice is in this situation.
When the public or a "know it all" reviewer challenges surveying methodology, we as surveyors can’t even state the most common practice or quote a standard practice method. Organized we stand and divided we fall, and by the look of all the professions doing their own surveying, we must be falling.
Maybe I am overreacting and I should realize that besides this being a source of priceless professional opinion of sum of the best practical surveyors in the country it is also just a blog where anyone can vent.
