All posts by Landon Blake

Best Practices in Land Surveying: Creating Superior Land Description Plats

In this new column, Landon describes best practices for land surveyors that were passed to him by his mentors and that he developed as part of his own land surveying work over the past decade. Topics include boundary surveying, GIS, data management, and business development. Land surveyors are taught the requirements of an effective land...

Best Practices in Land Surveying: Creating Superior Land Description Plats

Part 2 By Landon Blake In the last Best Practices article (March 2014), we considered land description plats in general; here we address dealing with the challenge of covering a large or complex parcel on a small sheet size and establishing a visual hierarchy using only black and white ink. Let’s consider these suggestions as they...