I talked with my CAD prof, who has a surveying license (I didn't know that, but the surveying prof I had last semester told me so), about amending GS 47-30. He suggested contacting the North Carolina Society of Surveyors, and he may find someone I can talk with.
Currently the state allows surveys drawn in metric, but does not allow ISO paper sizes. If you start Land Desktop and tell it the drawing is in meters, it offers a selection of paper sizes all of which are ISO, with A1 the default. Printing a metric drawing on inch-sized paper at the proper scale takes some contortions. I propose the following: (a) Each county shall accept at least one of A1, B2, and A2 and at least one of the currently used sizes for plats until clause (c) takes over. (b) Each county shall accept A4, B4, and legal size for mortgage surveys until clause (c) takes over. (c) If in any year, in any county, at least one tenth of all surveys recorded are on ISO-sized paper, ten years later, that county shall not accept surveys in the old sizes. (d) Each county shall inform the state government whenever the set of formats it accepts changes. I'm not sure about the mortgage surveys (which are most of the ones I draw). Legal size is about as long as B4 but about as wide as A4. Which do you think? Pierre
