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The Professional Tool For Working With The Public Land Survey System

PLS Coordinate Plotting!

PLS Statewide Database!

Legal Public Land Survey Coordinate Descriptions!

Add-On Tool & Database For 'ALL TOPO MAPS: V7 PROFESSIONAL MAP SETS'

What Is PLS?

What Does ALL TOPO MAPS: PLS TOOL Do?

Find PLS Coordinates

Map Annotation Tokens

Using PLS TOOL

How Is PLS TOOL Data Collected And Interpreted?

ALL TOPO MAPS: PLS TOOL Menu

If You Work With Legal (Public Land Survey System) Coordinates, The All Topo Map PLS Tool Will Save You Time Finding Maps; Time Figuring Out Which Section, Township And Range You Are Looking At; And Time Aliquoting Sections.  Coordinates Generated Using The PLS Tool Are Typically More Accurate And Less Prone To Mechanical Errors Than Those Interpolated By Hand!

For Those Who Work With Township / Range / Section Descriptions, The 'PLS TOOL' Will Save Significant Time And Labor When Looking For Maps And Determining Legal Descriptions.

QUICK FIND PLS Locations & Legal Coordinates Descriptions

By Combining A Complete State Database Of Section Corners With The Effective High-Speed Programming Technology Of PLS TOOL, And The 'All Topo Maps: V7 PRO' Map Reference Set, Enables A User To Quickly Find PLS Locations And Displayed Cursor Position Coordinates By ¼ ¼ Section Or Corner Offset.

For Those Who Use The Public Land Survey System (Township / Range / Section), The New 'All Topo Maps: PLS Tool' Will Save Time And Help Prevent Costly Georeferencing Errors!

The PLS Tool includes a large database that describes the circumference of every section in the state.  Data is collected from government sources, and supplemented with hand digitized coordinates from the 1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangles.

Once installed in a state's 'ALL TOPO MAPS:V7 Professional Map Reference Set', the PLS Tool is enabled by selecting the 'View' menu, then 'Display Township Range Section' on the view menu:

A new display field will appear on the toolbar of the 'ALL TOPO MAPS:' application window.

 PLS TOOL Display Field Example:

ALL TOPO MAPS: V7 PRO Application Window Example Above.

As The Cursor Is Moved Over The Map, The Current PLS Coordinate Is Displayed In The PLS Field.

Double-Click On The PLS Coordinate Field, To Change The Coordinate Display Format:

Choosing 'Offset from South East Corner' yields a footage offset from the South East corner:

Press Ctrl-Z to copy the PLS description '1303W 1799N from SE Sec 19 T 23N R 6E PM New Mexico' to the Window's Clipboard (for insertion into another document).

New Find PLS Coordinates:

More Extensive Searchable Formats.

Press The Find Location Button ; A ‘Search for a Coordinate’ Pop-Up Window Will Appear.

Enter the Township / Range / Section, Choose The Principal Meridian And Press ‘Show Location’.

The 'PLS Tool' Will Find The Correct Map Quickly, Then Display The Position And Mark The Spot.

Click The ‘Add as Waypoint and Show Location’ Button To Automatically Add The Searched Location To Your Current Annotation File.

By Ticking The 'Draw' Box, The Parcel Will Be Outlined Down To The 1/4, 1/4, 1/4 Section.

New Map Annotation Tokens: (Waypoint & Note Tokens)

Several New Annotation Tokens Makes It Easy To Annotate Maps With PLS Coordinates.

Simple Add One Of These Tokens:

%PLSQQ% %PLSBEST% %PLSNW% %PLSNE% %PLSSE% %PLSSW%

To A 'Waypoint Description' Or 'Note', To Include A PLS Coordinate Description On A Map:

In 1796, The United States Congress Enacted A Method Of Dividing Public Domain Lands Into Theoretical Six Mile Square Units Known As ‘Congressional Townships’.  Townships Are Based From A Central Set Of Orthogonal Axis; The North-South Axis Is Called The ‘Principal Meridian’; The East-West Axis Is Called The ‘Base Line’.  Townships Are Consecutively Numbered To The North-And-South And Ranges Are Numbered From East-To-West.

Each Township is divided into a six by six grid of 1 mile squares called sections. Sections are numbered in a serpentine fashion from the North East corner of the township. If perfect, each section would encompass 640 acres. Sections are additionally divided in to 160 acre quarters, and then into 40 acre quarter quarters.

Since the meridians and base lines are not truly parallel, no townships are perfectly square. Where different axis meet there are very significant errors. Early surveying errors added additional imperfections.

In spite of all the errors, the Public Land Survey system still accurately defines a point-on-the-ground or parcel by Principal Meridian, Township, Range, Section and offset.

The various scales of topographic maps have traditionally shown sections and townships. On a released 7½ minute quadrangle, township and range are identified in the map collars.

When using traditional digital products, it is difficult to pan to the edge of a map and find the Township and Range for a given section.   Many digital products de-collar the maps (these are called "seamless maps"), which makes determination of Township and Range impossible.

Complete Map With Border - 'ALL TOPO MAPS:' Provides The Actual USGS DRG Maps!

   "Seamless" Map Image - Incomplete/Useless/Difficult-To-Work-With

Most 'All Topo Map' standard edition state sets are searchable by Township and Range.    This makes viewing the map that contains a Township/Range/Section coordinate very easy.    The All Topo Maps: PLS Tool adds a huge database of section information and provides real-time-display of the cursor’s position to ¼ ¼ section, or as a footage offset from a section corner.   Displayed cursor PLS coordinates can be copied directly to the Window’s Clipboard for subsequent pasting to other applications. The PLS Tool also adds searching by Township / Range / Section for quickly finding and annotating features by legal coordinate.

While not accurate enough for survey or land division, the PLS Tool is great for locating maps and determining / displaying approximate legal coordinates.

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