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Locating land title technical description on Google Maps

Geographic Information Systems Asked by SymmetricsWeb on July 1, 2021

I am planning to buy a certain property but I’m too far away from where it’s located to check it personally.

The seller sends me a technical description of the property and I’m trying to locate it on google maps. he also said its somewhere around here https://www.google.com/maps/place/7%C2%B047’47.1%22N+126%C2%B001’40.9%22E/@7.7964283,126.0258283,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!1m2!2m1!1s-91.2525!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d7.7964231!4d126.0280167

Unfortunately, I do not know how to decode the technical description to convert into latitude and longitude coordinates that I can use to locate it on Google Maps and I’m not even sure if its possible.

Can anybody advise if the details on the image below can be used on locating the area on Google Maps and if there’s any tools or formula I can use.

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One Answer

This is not quite possible with the information you have provided.

The main thing missing is how to locate the "point of beginning", from which the text you provide locates the remaining points, which lie in a hexagon that is nearly a rectangle approx 350x100m+- lying roughly to that "point of beginning's" northwest.

As an example, the first line says point 2 lies 375.93 metres in the direction S 85deg 48 W, which is a bearing 4.5 degrees to the south of directly due west. For more on interpreting these instructions, see https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog160/node/1926

Actually, to do this completely right, you would have to understand details about what grid the bearings are relative to -- see https://www.flatironsinc.com/services/learn/bearings.php -- but this is likely immaterial in your situation.

If you could pinpoint the "point of beginning", for instance by its latitude and longitude, then you could use a GIS program like QGIS, or even manual/spreadsheet calculations if you're not scared of trigonometry, to convert those bearings and distances to create a KML file that you could then display on Google Maps (or alternately show Google Maps or another map source in that same GIS program).

If you can pinpoint one of the other boundary points, you can also reverse engineer the hexagon from that other starting point. But unless you have Longitude/Latitude or other (e.g. UTM,...) coordinates for at least one of those points, you don't have enough to go by.

Correct answer by Houska on July 1, 2021

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