Image: reddit.com · Metes and Bounds Plotting From Plats, Save, Load, Download to Google Earth
A metes and bounds plotter for old homestead survey plats
Claude made a web page in under two minutes that turns homestead plat bearings and distances in chains into map corners, areas and KML for Google Earth.
Credits
- Reddit poster Insult_me_good Source ↗
- Repository account DesertSoliloquy Source ↗
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The maker researches the history of homesteads using Homestead Entry Survey plats and field notes, which describe boundary corners by bearing and distance. If one corner's latitude and longitude is known, the others can be worked out.
Claude made a web page for this in under two minutes. You enter Corner One's position, then lines such as "S 72° - 30'E 37.34" (distances in chains); the last line snaps closed if it ends within a metre of the start, and the area appears in acres and square feet. Results download as KML for Google Earth or JSON, and it needs your own Google Maps API key.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Metes and Bounds Plotting From Plats, Save, Load, Download to Google EarthReddit poster: Insult_me_goodPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Metes and Bounds Plotting From Plats, Save, Load, Download to Google Earth (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: DesertSoliloquy
Linked in the post.