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SW 1/ 4NE1/ 4sec. 29, T. 23 N., R. 8 W is not a direction, it's a location. Specifically, it is the southwest quarter of the NE quarter section of section 29, township 23 North, range 8 West. These terms are with respect to the public lands survey system (PLSS). Using the BLM Interactive map I navigated to this location and then eyeballed the SW quarter of ...

The primary industry that uses this is the real estate industry, and planning and government. The TRS system is the basis for the legal descriptions that describe the locations of land parcels in most of the United States. Legal Description - Wikipedia There are a number of ways that the bounds of a land parcel may be described, but at some point, whether ...

The national map is one source. BLM Geocommunicator is another Depending on your location you will probably need the blm source data and the alt source data.

There are a number of industries that use PLSS data. Russell mentions the Real Estate market, but also the Energy/Resources and Utilities industries as well. In my current applications we provide interfaces for companies to report to us the location of assets/resources based on their Township/Range/Section/Quarter/QuarterQuarter as many areas do not have a ...

I've developed tools for petroleum landmen that allow them to create polygons of leases based on PLSS legal descriptions in a spreadsheet. The first tool lives within Excel and is used to export legal descriptions of leases from the spreadsheet into an xml file. The workbook contains VBA which references a data transfer class. The class is written in .NET ...

What you are describing is the Alberta Township System (ATS), which is a variation of the Canadian Dominion Land Survey (DLS) system. We in the US have an old system like these called the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). I've found three potential sources of information for you: The best option to create this grid would be to do it your self using ...

At a minimum, to identify an appropriate UTM zone you need the latitude and longitude of the "principal meridian" and the range east or west. Such information designates a north-south strip of nominal 6 mile by 6 mile squares whose lower left corners are displaced from the meridian's origin by 6 miles east-west for each range. The code will have to obtain ...