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 Training Course Content Disclaimer

    2. What is a Land Survey?

    3. Recorded Boundary & Legal Descriptions

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    4. Quiz: Recorded Boundary & Legal Descriptions

    5. US Surveying History

    6. Field Work Basics & Equipment

    7. Quiz: Field Work Basics & Equipment

    8. Plats & Modern Subdivisions

    9. Lots, Blocks, & Plat info.

    10. Quiz: Lots, Blocks, & Plat Info.

    11. Setbacks, Easements & Right of Ways

    12. Quiz: Setbacks & Easements

    13. Assessment: Module 1: Land Surveying Fundamentals

    14. Discussion: Land Surveying Fundamentals

    1. Surveying Research Tools

    2. Quiz: Surveying Research Tools

    3. Bearings & Angles

    4. Quiz: Bearings & Angles

    5. Legal Descriptions and Plats Revisited: Less & Excepts, Multi & Split Lots

    6. Quiz: Less & Excepts, Multi & Split lots

    7. Basic Curve Properties

    8. Quiz: Basic Curve Properties

    9. Metes & Bounds Legal Descriptions

    10. Quiz: Metes & Bounds Legal Description

    11. Field Notes: Overview

    12. Quiz: Field Notes Overview

    13. FINAL ASSESSMENT: Land Surveying: Research & Fundamentals Cont.

    14. Thinkific Communities & Discussion Tabs Introduction

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