I do this on a regular basis for easement work. There is a nice
range/township/section overlay you can buy for GE so you can at least find
the section corners. Most metes and bounds use a section corner or a
quarter corner as the point of beginning. If a parcel is complex, I
actually lay it out in solidworks, my 3D mechanical design program, that way
I can just directly enter the angle directions and distances. And the
parcel almost always closes. You could do that with any drafting program
most likely.
Then I export that to an image and import the image into GE. Stretch and
rotate to fit the visible landmarks and monuments.
There will always be an error in closing unless they wind up with a "more or
less" to point of beginning. That takes all the slop out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 10:49 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Converting vectors to a shape (.SHP) file?
The vectors describe a property line, and start at a fixed WGS84
coordinate. Then it's a series of distances and azimuths from there. I
tried drawing them with GE, but there is an accumulation of small
errors. There are about 10 vectors total.
Something like starting at point lat/lon, go 700 feet azimuth 8° 27'
42", then 200 feet azimuth 27° 15' 08", and so on.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 11/27/2016 9:13 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Is the end result displaying your vectors on GE? If so there are ways to
just import them as a text file.
I did it, don't recall how, perhaps I used some kind of app but in the
end, it was easy. I may have just drawn a line and then reverse
engineered the KMZ or KML file.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Prince
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 8:58 AM
To: Motorola III
Subject: [AFMUG] Converting vectors to a shape (.SHP) file?
I have a boundary between parcels that is described as a series of
vectors (distance & bearing) from one point. Apparently this can be
imported into Google earth as a shape file (.SHP extension). I have been
looking for, but not finding a tool that allows me to enter the vectors
in text, and spit out the .SHP file. Does anyone know where I might find
this?
