Bill,
I am a Town Planner in Hong Kong. Not a surveyor.
My experience is limited to the urban context.
Land resources are very expensive and we have a lot
of expensive land at hill side. For building land, due to
the limitation that human beings cannot sleep like monkey
but we prefer a sofa or
I will pick one small detail that may have sad consequences in the
application of zoning by-laws. If Matts says
"... But the house you build will not get bigger unless you make the
floors sloping as well.
I may add that it may even "grow smaller" if setbacks (imposed minimum
distances from lot
In the US, real property distances and areas are calculated with Cartesian
math (ie, right angle trigonometry) on a plane at an average surface
elevation. I live about 6000 feet above sea level, so the area of a parcel
in my neighborhood is about 0.03% larger than it is when projected onto the
Bill Thoen wrote:
Is there a surveyor in the house?
I was wondering how property boundary line distances and acreages
are calculated in sloping terrain. Are boundary distances...
Hi All!
In these matters, an ortographic projection is used per definition (in
Sweden at least).
That is to
