DeedMapper Help

Survey Description

You enter the information that you find in the survey portion of your deed into the survey section of the deed description in the Text View.  The survey description consists of Points and Lines.  The Points (also known as corners) are descriptions of the landmarks of the deed's boundary. The surveyor traced a route from one Point to another by following a Line that had a direction and distance.   The points (or corners) and the lines are paired—there are an equal number of each in a deed. 

Keywords in this section of the deed text are used to describe the boundaries of the parcel. The section contains pairs of text lines beginning with Pt and either Ln, Lm,or Lc.

For example:

Pt white oak tree

Ln N23E; 114p; with John Smith’s line

Points (or Corners)

You start a metes and bounds description by typing Pt (or PT) and then typing a description of the point in any form you like, for example, "white oak on the bank of the creek". Point descriptions can be entirely blank, meaning that there is no description of the point. For example,

Pt white oak on the bank of the creek

Pt double pine corner of Isaiah Smith

Pt

Lines

You enter a Line by typing one of the line codes (see below), followed by a direction, a distance, and an optional description.

DeedMapper supports three different kinds of lines so that the Plot View can convey the most information about the parcel. The line codes are:

•         Ln - Normal solid line.  This is by far the most common case.

•         Lm - Meander line, displayed in blue. Use this code when describing a line that follows the meanders of a creek or river.

•         Lc - Conditional line, displayed as a dashed line. Use this code when describing a line that is 'conditional' (not yet granted). It can also be used anytime you want to display a dashed line rather than a solid line.

Next section: Line Directions