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Assignment  (log in required)
This is your assignment. Print it out and complete it before the workshop. Try to answer the questions and do the problems from memory without looking things up. You can use software for support computations.

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Contents
Chapter I

Errata (not needed for the handout here on the website).

Page

Location

Correction

3

Last line of Section B.

change A-E 70.04 to A-E 7.04

19

in the section on "Don't call out to a point"

N 42º20'30"W E → cross out the E

20

map monument legend

change 1/2" to 3/4"

28

first line of Description A

change S 21º07'15" E to South 21 deg 07 min 15 sec East

33

second course in Description B

change North line to north line

I'd appreciate your comments, positive or negative, on the Workshop. Also, suggestions you have on future workshop topics.
All submissions are anonymous.

Interesting Descriptions
If you have an interesting or confusing description, please send me a copy. I like to use them in classes and workshops.

Links

Resource

Description/Comments

Revisor of Statutes Bureau

Online access to state statutes, administrative code, and opinions of the attorney general. Also has links to other Wis legal resources.

DOA - Plat Reivew

Links to the Platting Manual as well as forms and Subdiv/CSM/A-E 7 checklists.

Links to Counties (not too many yet) who have their PLS tie sheets accessible via the internet.
Maintained by the State Cartographer's Office (SCO). Try it  - the SCO would like  feedback.

Online scanned images of original filed notes and plats for the Wis PLS.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law

Not as detailed as Black's but pretty good for basic definitions.

Historic magnetic declination calculator. Also other geophysical data, info, and software.

WSLS

Wis Society of Land Surveyors

Please report any broken links.

Problems accessing the material?
email me at jmahun@yahoo.com.

Last update: 28 Dec 2011