About those phone apps that display property lines...
Popular apps that display property lines include LandGlide, OnX, Regrid and various others. All they do is display a copy of the parcel line data maintain by the counties. If the county parcel line data is bad then the same bad data is displayed by these apps.
The pic below shows a map I recently made for client using the surveyed description on the client’s deed. The black lines show the parcel line data from the county GIS server.
If this property owner was using a cell phone app instead of a custom map then they would never find their corner stakes.
@mappingsupport I recently ran into some property (where we have beehives) and there's a giant mysterious chunk of "no man's land" in that area... fascinating stuff. There are building built on that no man's land, which I suspect is either owned by the feds, state, or county for an old road (no longer in use!). The city's map just has "nothing" for ownership there... probably pre-dates the city by a significant amount of time.
@ai6yr Ha! Back in the day when I invested in vacant recreational property I once found 3 back lots of a river front subdivision that the developer never sold. And they were never put on the tax roll. Each lot was several acres. I tracked the developer down and bought a deed for not very much, got them on the tax roll and sold them.
I had someone say they were the owners of these lots (stranded by a freeway) saying he wanted to offer them up for beehives/agriculture, but they are bizarrely inaccessible and blocked by the 101 freeway and NO WAY to get there via foot or vehicle 🤔 Apparently they chopped a bunch of properties in half when they built the freeway in the 1950's? 60's? -- indication that the last survey was done in 1923... Used to be a road to them.
@ai6yr@mappingsupport "So Mr Cuban, we're going to buy up all these defunct Amazon delivery drones for pennies on the dollar, and create beehives that can be dropped off and collected from a drone! We'll paint the drones in cute honey bee livery so people won't be terrified of a box of angry bees dropping in their sunroof."
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