A Survey System Description is a named or numbered area of land that can be identified by a type and a designator.
ATTRIBUTES:
Survey System Description ID
The Survey System Description ID is a primary key which identifies each record in the Survey System Description entity.
Domain: numeric
Legal Area Description ID
The Legal Area Description ID is a foreign key which points to a record in the Legal Area Description, where information on the Legal Area Description can be found.
Domain: numeric
Survey System Origin
The Survey System Origin is the numbering or measurement starting point or baseline for a Survey System Description.
Domain: free text
Survey System Type
Survey System Type indicates the category or major class of the description. The informative appendix for the Survey System Type is in Appendix 3.
Domain: Assessor Plat, Cemetery, Condominium, Farm Lot,
French Long Lot, Grant of Land, Homestead Entry, Indian Allotment, Land
Grant, Mineral Survey, Plat of Survey, Protraction Block, Small Holding
Claim, Small Tracts Act, Subdivision, Survey, Texas Land Grant, Townsite,
United States Survey, free text
Survey System Designator
The Survey System Designator is an identifying name or number for a specific type of Survey System area.
Domain: free text
Links to the Course Sections and Modules: [Quick
Reference] [Introduction]
[Section
1: Purpose and Benefits of the Cadastral Data Content Standard] [Section
2: How the Standard Was Developed] [Section
3: Other Standards and Related Activities] [Section
4: Data Modeling Techniques, Rules and Diagram Conventions] [Section
5: Crosswalks, Translations, and Examples] [Section
6: Understanding Compliance with the Standard] [Section
7: Maintenance of the Standard] [Section
8: User and Technical Support] [County
Recorder Module] [GIS
Specialist Module] [Surveyor
Module] [Glossary]
Learning the Cadastral Data Content Standard
Presented by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and
the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee