>I am new to this MI listserv. I am trying to find some information on
>plotting metes and bounds from deeds in MI Professional. Techsupport
>guided me here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We use COGOline.MBX (included with MapInfo) and the snap function ('S' on
the keyboard to toggle snap on and off). COGOline allows you to enter a
bearing and distance for each line segment - very primitive but it works.
The toughest part of entering a property description is figuring out
(accurately) where the starting point is.
Most county folks in the US seem to use AutoCAD and an add-in program of
some sort to automate the process - the add-in is able to 'read' text
descriptions and input them to automatically build the polygons. I've been
told that there still is a lot of surveying judgement required to deal with
slivers and overlaps and non-closures. AutoCAD is also double-precision and
MapInfo is not. But for 'casual' metes and bounds descriptions to get a
graphic polygon for illustrative purposes, MapInfo has worked well enough
for us.
Tom
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Tom Curley
Suquamish Tribe GIS Program Manager
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1.360.394.5337
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