Best Practices for Creating Superior Land Description Plats

This course will define Best Practices for Creating Superior Land Description Plats. It will first describe the intent and purpose of any plat, then briefly review historic practices, basic mapping requirements and minimal data required to record a plat throughout North America. The course will then shift from review to recommendations that will guide a surveyor step by step through the creation of exceptional maps. Recommendations will include a checklist of essential elements that exceed the usual state-required minimum mapping requirements. An important part of the course will be a discussion of the surprising benefits that arise from creating outstanding plats, which include decreasing your own liability as well as aiding surveyors who may walk in your footsteps on some future date.