Folks think there is a free app for everything including land surveying. Landowners for the most part will do anything to avoid survey costs. I think maybe I made believers out of them but not really expecting another call. My search coordinates got me within a foot of the corners. The power and water hookup for the lot needing the easement were not on the lot (a few feet away). The road and installed utilities were all on one lot instead of sort of a split between the two. Download the Canada Lands KMZ file from the link on the CLSS page. They were at least 15 feet off on the line and 30 feet off for the corner. To open Google Earth Pro, click Start > Programs > Google Earth Pro. So a few days later after I had used the data available from surveys and calculated some search points I returned. We hunted for a corner which we couldn’t find in the tall brush on a mountainside. They showed me the line where they had already built a road and put in water and power service. I explained that (1) the base map (image) might not be positioned right (getting pretty good though), (2) the parcel map is record fiction for the most part (never made accurate by real survey) and (3) that phone GPS had a lot a slop in it and would change over time. I told them it wasn’t all that accurate and I needed to do it my way with my instruments. Both my client and the buyer had some phone app and were showing me the lines. Client, buyer and needed easement signer all out at the site in the mountains. It allows users to check out far-off and unfamiliar places, to see what they look like in 2D or 3D, and even investigate local points of interest. Went out to do an easement survey last month. In itself, Google Earth can be an interesting tool. There must be other ways also (phone APPs). There is a lot of fiction with the parcel lines though. In Utah you can download the parcel map from the state GIS (AGRC).
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