[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> There's an iron rod in the ground in the
> northeast corner of my property boundary.  To the extent the position
> of that iron rod currently differs with the lat/lon in the county
> records (even with the lat/lon in the deed to my property or in the
> plat to my neighborhood), the legal position of the boundary is the
> position of the iron rod, not the lat/lon.

Unless your county's deeds and plats are rather different from Orange
County's, everything (outside pre-PLSS land grants and maybe a few
other areas) falls back not on lat/lon, but on the Public Land Survey
System and its "certified corner records":
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0177/Sections/0177.507.html

I guess your point is that everything can be surveyed, even something
that's not "on the ground" if you have a description in relation to
on-the-ground features.