The box below illustrates in red attributes from the Survey System Description entity of the Cadastral Data Content Standard which correspond with data commonly used by surveyors.
Survey System Description - A Survey System Description is a named or numbered area of land that can be identified by a type and a designator.
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 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
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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Standard
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