Boundary surveying is the process of determining and marking the legal perimeter lines and corners of a parcel of land by combining record and field research, measurements, and computations . The survey establishes property lines, often shows...
Surveying has occurred since humans built the first large structures. In ancient Egypt , a rope stretcher would use simple geometry to re-establish boundaries after the annual floods of the Nile River . The almost perfect squareness and north-south orientation of the ...