A late 1970's era plat. The surveyor who signed for it was a one man show back then, no doubt he drafted it and did all the work in the field.
The area is mountainous and had a couple of existing access roads that switchbacked through the area and so the lots ended up with curves, all labeled in a curve table. The lot we were asked to do consists of 14 corners. There seemed to be a big panic about how it lays out cause it won't "close". I calculated through it and it closed fine, the monuments were all there, only problem with the monuments was that it was during an era where plastic caps were all the rage. Most of the monuments had caps in very poor condition.
The "error" in the plat and why it wouldn't close was in the curve table, the surveyor had labeled all curve radius as centerline street radius?ÿwhen clearly a few were actually along the lot lines including the lot to be surveyed. It made some people (I guess)?ÿtry and place this lot over photos (GIS) and they determined the road encroached. So panic time. Anyway, once you look at the plat it's clear what happened and I didn't even give it a second thought. That sure isn't what some title people are?ÿthinking.
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Amazing how much work we get from GIS type problems, that a lot of the time are not really problems at all.?ÿ
And it is also amazing how some old plats, seem not to close on certain lots, but when you start working your way around them and find lots that do close you can find the typo. I cannot count how many times that has happened to me.?ÿ
Amazing how much work we get from GIS type problems, that a lot of the time are not really problems at all.?ÿ
And it is also amazing how some old plats, seem not to close on certain lots, but when you start working your way around them and find lots that do close you can find the typo. I cannot count how many times that has happened to me.?ÿ
It's a nice looking plat, 1978 so it wasn't autocad, no doubt Leroy and maybe some cut and paste stick-ons. GIS is a good source for work. "Fixing" problems that aren't problems ??ÿ
Too many people fail to look at a document in it's entirety. If they do not see perfection exactly where they are looking they are totally flummoxed.
Paul in PA
Too many people fail to look at a document in it's entirety. If they do not see perfection exactly where they are looking they are totally flummoxed.
Paul in PA
There are so many issues surveyors can resolve by good research and common sense, this plat shouldn't be slandered for a tiny "mistake"