An Illustration of Surveying Data

Crosswalked To The Standard

A Corner Attribute
which Corresponds with Surveying Data


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.

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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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Table Of Contents - Surveryors and the Cadastral Data Content Standard

Links to the other Cadastral Courses:
Learning The Cadastral Data Content Standard
County Recorders And The Cadastral Data Content Standard
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