Tài liệu What every real estate professional needs to know about surveying

What every real estate professional needs to know about surveying
In common usage, the term ‘survey’ refers to a drawing of a parcel of real property.
This drawing depicts the results of the surveyor's measurements made in the field
and his or her interpretation of evidence relating to the location of the boundaries of
the property based on a legal description furnished to the surveyor. Surveying is a
process of direct measurement and analysis specifically designed to document the
existence, the identity, the location and the dimension or size of natural or artificial
features on land or in the air, space or water for the purpose of producing accurate
and reliable maps, suitable for visualization if needed, of such documentation.
There are numerous types of surveys:
· as-built (also called record)
· boundary
· condominium
· construction layout
· control
· hydrographic
· mean high water line
· quantity
· right-of-way
· special purpose
· topographic
The most commonly encountered type is the boundary survey, which determines the
perimeters of a parcel or tract of land by establishing or re-establishing comers,
monuments and boundary lines for the purposes of describing the parcel, locating
fixed improvements on the parcel, dividing the parcel or platting