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New to the mapping side of Cad. I have Map 3D 2010. I have a drawing with township and range lines as well as section lines drawn. Included in that drawing is our water distribution system and easements. What i am trying to do is correctly place that system spatially.

 

For instance I looked up the NW corner of a specific section on our counties GIS site and it gave me these coordinates: 35.1231020, -119.3407611.

 

How do I plot that point in Map 3d? I was planning on plotting that point and then moving my T/R lines to match that point.

 

 

If i am confusing or too vague please let me know.

 

Thanks all.

 

 

-Mac

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Sure thats not a lat & long

 

Sorry, sir, but I guess that's definetely a Lat/Long pair, more exactly it's a point in Kern county (California).

 

The minus sign means "West of Greenwich"...

 

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New to the mapping side of Cad. I have Map 3D 2010. I have a drawing with township and range lines as well as section lines drawn. Included in that drawing is our water distribution system and easements. What i am trying to do is correctly place that system spatially.

 

For instance I looked up the NW corner of a specific section on our counties GIS site and it gave me these coordinates: 35.1231020, -119.3407611.

 

How do I plot that point in Map 3d? I was planning on plotting that point and then moving my T/R lines to match that point.

 

 

If i am confusing or too vague please let me know.

 

Thanks all.

 

 

-Mac

 

Are you in Alberta ? Township and Range leads me to believe you are working within the Dominion Land Survey system. I know this is an older post but if you have future help i can give you a hand. I work exclusively in this area. Hope all is well none the less.

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Are you in Alberta ? Township and Range leads me to believe you are working within the Dominion Land Survey system. I know this is an older post but if you have future help i can give you a hand. I work exclusively in this area. Hope all is well none the less.

 

The Township and Range is used south of the border too. The legal desc of a few acre the wife owns starts out as Town and Range, Section and subsection NE 1/4 of SSW 1/4 etc then ends up using metes and bounds.

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The Township and Range is used south of the border too. The legal desc of a few acre the wife owns starts out as Town and Range, Section and subsection NE 1/4 of SSW 1/4 etc then ends up using metes and bounds.

 

Hey Murph, good to see you are still hammering around this neck of the woods!!!

 

Interesting it goes that far south i knew that it trickled down into the American midwest too, i shouldn't have been so quick to assume i suppose. Didn't know to how far of an extent it travelled south though.

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Hey Murph, good to see you are still hammering around this neck of the woods!!!

 

Interesting it goes that far south i knew that it trickled down into the American midwest too, i shouldn't have been so quick to assume i suppose. Didn't know to how far of an extent it travelled south though.

 

Most of it is west of the Mississippi and runs down to the gulf, there was a few places in Ohio and I think New Jersey and Pennsylvania . I thought it started down here after the great survey and moved north.

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