Land Surveying Community Web Page

On this web page you will find resources for the land surveying community. These resources are not produced directly by Redefined Horizons. To learn about resources that Redefined Horizons has produced directly, see the Resources web page of this web site. To view and download articles written by the Redefined Horizons staff, visit the Articles web page of this web site. If you have a resource for the surveying community that you would like me to add to this page, contact Landon Blake by e-mail.

You can find information on efforts by Redefined Horizons to create a new digital index for filed survey maps in San Joaquin County on our San Joaquin County Filed Survey Map Index web page.

Visit our Maps page to download survey maps directly, or to get a list of links for other websites where you can download surveying maps.

Visit the Land Surveying Monument Community Monitoring page to get information on local surveying monuments provided through monitoring efforts of local land surveyors.

Visit the California Central Valley Flood Control page to get information on land surveying issues related to flood control and flood control improvements in the California Central Valley.

Presentations, Workshops, and Seminars

You can find supporting materials and links for the Introduction to Vector GIS for Land Surveyors presentation on this web site. This presentation was first given by Landon Blake at the annual CLSA conference in Reno.

You can find supporting materials and links for Landon Blake's presentation "What Does Your Filed Survey Map Say About You?" on this web site. This presentation was first given at a meeting of the CLSA Sacramento Chapter.

Public Land Survey System Resources

• Jerry Wahl's Cadastral Papers Page. All of the links below to the BLM PLSS Case Book can be found on Jerry's website.
• The entire BLM PLSS Case Book.
• BLM Case Book - Part A.
• BLM Case Book - Part B.
• BLM Case Book - Part C.
• BLM Case Book - Part D.
• BLM Case Book - Part E.
• BLM Case Book - Part F.

California Land Surveyors Association

• CLSA Home Page

Land Surveying Online Communities

• The Point of Beginning Message Board is a great place to ask questions and learn from other land surveyors.

Recommended Land Surveying Books

I hope to add some book reviews to this section in the future.

• Legal Descriptions (Wattles) is the Bible of legal descriptions. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principls is the Bible for boundary surveys. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• Forensic Procedures For Boundary and Title Investigation is an interesting book on the application of forensic science procedures to boundary surveying. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• Evidence and Procedures For Boundary Location another great book on boundary surveying. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• GPS For Land Surveyors contains good explanations of GPS principles for land surveyors. This book might go good with a book on the basics of radio signals. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• Elementary Surveying (Wolf) is a good introductory text book to land surveying. This link leads to the Amazon.com web page for the book.
• Adjustment Computations (Wolf) is a book on using least squares to adjust surveying data. This book can be hard to understand, but there really isn't an alternative. This link leads to the publisher's home page for the book.
• Interpreting Land Records(Wilson) is a book on interpreting cadastral documents like survey maps and deeds. This link leads to the publisher's home page for the book.

Land Surveying Links

• NGS Web site to download survey control datasheets in various formats.
• Web site to download a KML format of NGS survey control in your area that can be viewed using Google Earth.
• NGS Web site for the Horizontal Time Dependent Positioning Page from the NGS.
• San Joaquin County Web site that allows you to search for filed survey maps in the county.
• USGS Web site for the geomagnetism program.