Use Google Maps to Locate Your Property Lines!

That wasn't that bad ... he said it's not survey quality, but close enough to get "an idea", which is probably true.

And the landowner can avoid all those expensive surveys, too.

Yikes!!!

Stephen

how many areas have the platted tracts tied to google earth? I don't think mine do...yet..

We're so far out in the boonies Google Maps shows most of our county as it's finest view.

I see MORE work being generated.

Property Owner A is talking to neighbor, Property Owner B:

Owner A: Uh, Bill, how did you know where to build that (fence, shed, patio, etc)? Are you sure it's on your property?

Owner B: Well, Carl, I pulled out my iPhone and located the lines using this app.

Owner A: You did what??????

Owner A: Hello, ABC Surveying, here's my situation......

I wonder why they don't tell you how to buy and sell your house without a realtor? That way, you can save enough money to get a precise location on you property lines by a real land surveyor.....

I mean, why not pay $3,000 for a boundary survey and save $10k or 20k in your 7% realtor's fee?

> I wonder why they don't tell you how to buy and sell your house without a realtor? That way, you can save enough money to get a precise location on you property lines by a real land surveyor.....
>
> I mean, why not pay $3,000 for a boundary survey and save $10k or 20k in your 7% realtor's fee?

I'll second that notion.

> I see MORE work being generated.
>
> Property Owner A is talking to neighbor, Property Owner B:
>
> Owner A: Uh, Bill, how did you know where to build that (fence, shed, patio, etc)? Are you sure it's on your property?
>
> Owner B: Well, Carl, I pulled out my iPhone and located the lines using this app.
>
> Owner A: You did what??????
>
> Owner A: Hello, ABC Surveying, here's my situation......

HEY!! Why you draggin' ME into this mess?? 😉

"I wonder why they don't tell you how to buy and sell your house without a realtor?"

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Here is a classic example where the information on Google Earth (and Google Maps) should only be treated as "suspect" until a precise land-based survey is performed:

Google Maps - I-80 - Nebraska

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Ladd Nelson

> how many areas have the platted tracts tied to google earth?

As long as the fence lines show up, isn't that good enough?

Use Google Maps to Locate Your Original Texas Land Surveys!

http://www.earthpoint.us/TexasLandSurvey.aspx

Information: Texas Land Survey
An interpretation of the Original Texas Land Surveys boundaries and bay tracts. The dataset was derived from the Texas General Land Office (GLO) county maps, the GLO Abstract of Original Land Titles:Volumes and Supplements, and the GLO maps of State-Owned Submerged Lands of the Texas Gulf Coast (bay tracts). The GLO county maps, showing the boundaries of the original land grants of the State of Texas, were compiled and drawn by GLO draftsmen. This dataset is a digital interpretation of the geographic placement of the original land grants and bay area tracts depicted on these GLO maps and is not a legal survey product.

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