Data Sources

Deed Records - When you buy a house on a piece of land, you get a deed with a description of you newly purchased property.  Most of the time, you receive a map of the property and you just take it for granted that the map accurately reflects the boundary line description.   "Exhibit A" below, is the property description for John Q. Public's land plotted as an example of our Basic Product.  Usually, deed records are hard to read (as you can see!) and many times are missing critical information.  This example isn't too bad with the exception of having to interpret points of tangency.  The rest of it is well defined.  The deed description is the legal description of your land, so if you want to check it out, just let LandPrints help.

LandPrints - Typical Property Deed describing Land Boundaries

Old Documents (historical) - LandPrints has been used to assist historical societies define old plots of land and their location.  The one below appears to be a "working document" that evolved as various land owners came on the scene.  However, a close up scrutiny would probably reveal enough information to make a clean mapping using LandPrints. 

LandPrints - Historical Boundary Sources of Data

Self-Generated Data - Actually, you don't need any previous documentation at all to generate enough information for a LandPrints mapping.  Using the boundary nomenclature we describe in this web site, one can simply measure (or even pace off) distances and measure (or just estimate) directions to define a plot of land.  Of course, it's nice to be as accurate as possible, but one could get a rough idea of an area of interest with not too much effort.  LandPrints will be glad to work with you on this one, so let us know by email and we'll try to help.

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