Book Description: A Subject by Subject Guide to Learn the Know-How of Writing Legal Descriptions; Subdividing Land; and Enriching Your Coffer with Knowledge. This book will show you how to: 1.) Read Legal Descriptions. 2.) Prepare a Section Format Legal Description. 3.) Prepare a Long Format Legal Description. 4.) Prepare a Short Format Legal Description. 5.) Prepare a Quit Claim Deed. 6.) Prepare Lot Line Adjustments. 7.) Prepare a Subtitle, Tract/Parcel Map. 8.) Profit from this knowledge. You can benefit from this book by: A.) Broadening your clienteles. B.) Maximizing your building dwelling units. C.) Keeping your mineral rights forever. D.) Avoiding land locks & more Featured subjects in this book: 1.) Public Land Survey System is the Pillar of the United States Land System. 2.) Legal Description vs. Tract Map Subtitle. 3.) Preparing Tract/Parcel Maps procedures. 4.) Family trees of land.

The GCDB Handbook for GIS is a quick reference to the practical applications of the Bureau of Land Management's Geographic Coordinate Database for Geographic Information System users and land surveyors. Because the GCDB is important to GIS in the Public Lands Survey states, GIS users and land surveyors should understand what the GCDB is and how the GCDB affects GIS data alignment and spatial accuracy, and should know how to use the GCDB for a number of GIS and surveying tasks.

The GIS for Surveyors book explains how surveyors use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to support land surveying activities and how GIS helps surveyors work more effectively and efficiently. Additionally, the book covers how surveyors support GIS data development, integrity, and spatial accuracy. GIS concepts, overviews, and specific examples are presented on a variety of topics related to Geographic Information Systems relevant to land surveying. The book also addresses important issues and helpful applications. Major topics covered are GIS fundamentals, data sources, using GIS in the survey office, using GIS in the field, surveying for GIS, and spatial accuracy considerations.

It is doubtful that any commercial enterprise today has not benefitted greatly from advances in technology, most of which are based on electronics. The ancient art of determining and locating land boundaries has always relied on precise measurement of the vectors which define the perimeter. The purpose of this book is to document the development of an accurate, affordable, reliable machine to perform the relatively long distance measurements routinely made by land surveyors. In 1951, Erik Bergstrand culminated thirteen years of research by bringing an electronic distance meter which measured distances based on the speed of light to the market. Research efforts in applied electronics and wave propagation led to the maser, which allowed Harry Baumann and T. L. Wadley to develop and market a device using the microwave spectrum to measure. Advances in transistors and integrated circuit technology introduced the simplification and miniaturization to electronic distance measuring that would transform the once novel instrument into a commodity product.