I think I can figure out once they have a reference point, how they could super accurately measure everything from there. But often times property disputes seem to come down to a matter of inches.
How does a surveyor know *this* spot is for sure correct and I can base the rest of the measurements on it? It seems like tiny errors over many plots of land could add up to being off by several feet.
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others have answered how surveyors work so I’ll just add
> It seems like tiny errors over many plots of land could add up to being off by several feet.
it’s rare for them to be that far off, but the law actually has stipulations to deal with things like this. if you treat an area as part of your property in good faith (meaning you honestly and reasonably believed you had the right to) and the rightful owner of that land doesn’t contest it for an extended period, you can be granted the legal right to continue to use that land (called an easement), if not gain ownership of it outright.
this is fairly common in suburbia, where fences and parts of driveways can extend into neighboring properties.
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