The box below illustrates in red an attribute from the Corner entity of the Cadastral Data Content Standard which corresponds with data commonly used by surveyors.
Corner - A Corner is a legal location. It may mark the extremity of Parcel or a Parcel Legal Area. A Corner may have multiple Corner Points, which serve as measures of markers for the legal location of the Corner.
Corner Classification
- The Corner Classification describes the specific Corner. The
informative appendix for the Corner Classification domain is Appendix 1.
Domain: Angle Point, Auxiliary Meander Corner, Center
Quarter Section Corner, Intersection Point, Crossing Closing Corner, Location
Corner, Location Monument, Meander Corner, Mile Corner, Mile Post, Point
on Line, Quarter-Corner, Section Corner, Special Meander Corner, Subdivision
of Section Corner, Township Corner, Witness Point, free text
Corner Classification corresponds to the following data
commonly used by surveyors: description of a corner.
Note: this example and the others
in the crosswalk illustrate correlations between commonly used surveying
information and attributes in the Cadastral Data Content Standard.
However, this example is not meant to cover every possible surveying situation.
Thus you may find, upon reviewing the crosswalk, that you can think of
instances when additional correlations can be found between the Standard
and information surveyors collect.
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Cadastral
Information for GIS Specialists
Presented by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and
the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee