On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> There's an iron rod in the ground in the >> northeast corner of my property boundary. To the extent the position >> of that iron rod currently differs with the lat/lon in the county >> records (even with the lat/lon in the deed to my property or in the >> plat to my neighborhood), the legal position of the boundary is the >> position of the iron rod, not the lat/lon. > > Unless your county's deeds and plats are rather different from Orange > County's, everything (outside pre-PLSS land grants and maybe a few > other areas) falls back not on lat/lon, but on the Public Land Survey > System and its "certified corner records": > http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0177/Sections/0177.507.html
If the definition is not expressed in terms of lat/lon, then it necessarily *can* be edited, because OSM is expressed in lat/lon. > I guess your point is that everything can be surveyed, even something > that's not "on the ground" if you have a description in relation to > on-the-ground features. I don't really like using the term "on the ground" because it is so poorly defined, but to the extent I do use it I don't think it's supposed to be taken literally. I say a corner of a border which is "500 feet due north of survey marker J32" is "on the ground", that it can be surveyed, that it can be edited, and that no lat/lon given in a government database will ever be perfect (though it may be perfect to the 9 decimal places or whatever used by OSM, at least until the continental plate shifts enough). I think it's pretty obvious that my property boundary can be surveyed. I have a survey of it! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
