What symbol do you use for a right-of-way monument?
I want to depict 7 concrete right-of-way markers that we found in the vicinity of my subject tract. Normally, I would just use a solid circle to indicate something found and then a label specifying what was found. In this case, we found several identical monuments and the spacing is a little tight.
If I remember correctly, the normal symbol for a ROW mon is a triangle in a circle, right? No... wait... A pentagon?
It's a brain fart day.
Don't know if it's a standard or not, but I've always used a square with an "x" inside from corner to corner.
Well, I'll admit that does look like one of those concrete obelisk markers if you look at it in plan view.
I've always used the "Bound" symbol in the Survey Palette, a square with an interior circle.
My $0.02
I just happen to have two different TXDOT Right of Ways maps in front of me.
These are of the same road just years apart
The 1986ish plat has a circle
The 2005ish plat has a square for type I conc mon and a soild square for a TXDOT aluminum cap
I think I was thinking of a pentagon but right now the square sounds good. Ultimately it doesn't matter as long as I define it in the legend.
Thanks for the comments.
Most of the DOT plans I've ever seen tend to have a square with an "x" from corner to corner. So that's what I would use. That doesn't mean that I'm correct in doing so, only that is the symbol "I" would use.
I have always used and seen squares for concrete monuments...but I don't know if it is a standard.
Pentagram
Square with a solid hatch for all concrete monuments.
I use a small black square for concrete r/w mons, and labels them as such of course. I have located r/w disks in some practicing states and I denote them with an open double circle (Carlson sr26)
Standard around here, depends on the monument. We locate the back center of the old VHC/VDH monuments (6" x 6" concrete) so in our drawings, most will show an open square with the deflection/PC/PC at the back of the monument. In the cases of newer monuments (rod & cap), most surveyors will use whatever their standard symbol is a rod and cap. Around here, it's more about the labeling instead of the symbology.
Carl
After having spent far too many late afternoons researching r/w acquisition records and realizing their often lacking relationship to the locations of lands acquired from, I have come to the belief that the best symbol to represent a r/w monument is often a question mark.
Open square with solid circle in middle
> Pentagram
Evil is as evil does. That's what Momma always told me.
I've always preferred symbols that sort of look like the object they represent.
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If they're square, I'd show an open square symbol. If cylindrical, then an open circle. Back in the day, subdivision plans always depicted found monuments as open, and the ROW monuments to be set as solid. I see all kinds of different stuff now, and haven't done a subdivision plan in years.
I use a circle for all corners, and then label each corner.
Sometimes, when space is tight, I will shorthand the label with Fnd. and in the notes say Fnd. = Found Type I Concrete Highway Monument.
That's the way I was taught. I hate having to jump back and forth between a legend to see what the hell the corner is.
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Bruce,
What part of the wagon wheel do you normally locate? 🙂