Guides

Mapping guides for land, title and GIS teams

How to read legal descriptions, plot them accurately, check them and get them into GIS, from metes and bounds to PLSS sections and Texas abstracts.

How to Plot a Metes and Bounds Description

Bearings to azimuths, varas and chains, latitudes and departures, closure, finding the bad call, curves, area and placing the tract in GIS.

October 18, 2026 · 10 minute read