Site Location, Map Reading and Lot Ptotting
Site Location, Map Reading and Lot Ptotting
Site Location, Map Reading and Lot Ptotting
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
. SURVEYING - is the accurate measurement of land to determine its boundaries, its area and its
contours or elevation.
. ORIGINAL SURVEY - first survey undertaken on a piece of land to determine its technical
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descriptions, area and relative location with the other lands'
. RELOCATION SURVEY - it is the survey conducted on a property to relocate the boundaries and
monuments. Through a relocation survey, it could established whether there was an increase or
decrease in area as appearing in the title.
. LOT pLAN - a map showing the configuration of a parcel of land and also the basic information
of a survey plan.
. MAP - a flat representation of the earth's surface.
. TIE POINT - is a reference point wit known geographic position established by the Bureau of
lands as Bureau of Land Location Monument (BLLM)or Bureau of Lands Barrio Monument
(BLBM). point "1" of all lots is tied to a reference point to avoid overlapping of properiies. ln
case the location monuments of a lot are lost, it can be relocateil without problem by referring
to the tie Point.
' TIE LINE - an imaginary line connecting from the known geographic position (tie point) to a
corner of the titled propefi, usually point "1".
. CADASTRAL SURVEY - a survey of wide extend, within a municipality or a province, for the
purpose of locating property lines in connection with existing ownership.
. TOPOGRAPHIC MAP - it is a map indicating the physical features of a locality or region. lt
described the elevations, contours or flatness'
. CONTOUR MAP - a map showing the terrain configuration of a parcel of land represented by
contour lines.
. CONTOUR LINES - the lines in the contour map, all points on which are of the same elevation.
. SUBDIV|S|ON SCHEME - it is a plan showing how a property will be subdivided indicating the
layout and sizes of the subdivision lots, roads, playground, open spaces and other amenities.
means from the North to East. S W means from the South to West.
. 3. Scale - in plotting or in making a map, the actual distance on the ground is represented by a
smaller measurement to be drawn on the paper. Example: The actual distance of 20 meters on
the ground, if drawn with a scale of 1:100, we need to lay down on paper only 20
centimeters. The scale of the map, which is written in a technical manner as 1:l-00 therefore
means l centimeters = L meter.
SURVEYING SYMBOLS
pcs - private Consolidation - Subdivision Survey of titled properties (Private means the survey
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