Course Benefits & Objectives

Why this course & what you'll learn?

  • Key Benefits:

    1. Master complex boundary retracement, legal descriptions, coordinate systems, and staking methods to elevate your survey accuracy and professionalism.

    2. State Specific Expertise - Learn how to handle monumentation, control points, and state-specific codes critical for legal compliance and professional credibility.

    3. Real World Field Applications - Get hands-on techniques and error theory training to reduce costly mistakes in the field and enhance your team’s operational efficiency.

    4. Enhance Job & Project Management - Learn how to document field notes, plan go-backs, and manage survey data effectively—boosting your bottom line through smarter project execution.

    5. Understand the difference between types of surveys and requirements, building ties, and encroachments to reduce rework and increase client satisfaction.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Apply advanced boundary retracement, monumentation, and evidence evaluation techniques.

    2. Interpret and correct complex metes & bounds descriptions using legal principles.

    3. Understand and apply state plane coordinate systems and basis of bearing in your workflows.

    4. Improve survey documentation, job planning, and quality control procedures in the field.

    5. Differentiate types of Land Surveys from boundary surveys, understanding of the requirements for each survey.

Course curriculum

    1. One MC Disclaimer for Online Course Content

    2. Thinkific Communities & Discussion Tabs Introduction

    3. 1.1: Boundary Course Introduction

    4. 1.2: Revisiting topics through Advanced Learning

    1. 2.1: Review: Equipment Errors

    2. 2.2: State Specific: Finding Boundary Monuments & Establishing Control Points

    3. Quiz: Boundary Monumentation & Control points

    4. Assignment: Codes- Ohio vs. (Your State)

    5. 2.3: Review: Error Theory

    6. 2.4: Review: Field Procedure: Data Collection

    7. Quiz: Survey Field Equipment

    1. 3.1: Review: Land Surveying Legal Terminology

    2. 3.2: Review: Types of Legal Descriptions Revisited

    3. 3.3: Review: Advanced Plat Overview

    4. 3.4: Review: Reading Documents: M&B Deed

    5. 3.5: Review: Reading Documents: M&B Common Issues

    6. 3.6: Review: Reading Documents: Complex M&B

    7. Quiz: Plats, Legals, & Maps

    1. 4.1: Introduction to Mortgage Location Surveys

    2. 4.2: Encroachments VS. Violations

    3. 4.3: Mortgage Surveys VS. Boundary Surveys: Measuring & Confirming Lot

    4. 4.4: MLS Building Ties Part 1: Station & Offset Theory

    5. 4.5: MLS Building Ties Part 2: Station & Offset Field Execution

    6. Quiz: Mortgage Location Survey

    7. Discussions: Mortgage Surveys

    1. 5.1: Review: Coordinate Systems & State Plane

    2. 5.2: Review: Data Points: PNEZD, Job Files & Field to Finish

    3. 5.3: Coordinates: International Survey Foot

    4. 5.4: Basis of Bearing

    5. Quiz: Coordinate Systems

    1. 6.1: History of Boundaries

    2. 6.2: Boundary Survey Overview

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    3. 6.3: Review: Boundary Procedures: The Process

    4. 6.4: Retracement & Evidence

    5. 6.5: Retracement Surveys & Technology

    6. 6.6: Review: Monuments

    7. 6.7: Corners: Existent, Obliterated, Lost

    8. 6.8: Review: Requirements: Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 4733-37

    9. 6.9: Pacing: Theory & Practice

    10. Assignment: Pacing Lab

    11. 6.10: Review: Staking a Boundary Line

    12. 6.11: Review: Pin Setting

    13. Quiz: Boundary Surveys

    14. Discussions: Boundary Surveys

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