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chiselbit said:
I’ve got onX, seems inaccurate, i look at my property line going through my neighbors cargo containers 20’ from the fence line and wonder who’s right here? Another neighbor who’s family once owned the entire area told me the corner marker was buried in the street. OnX shows the corner 40’ out into the cow pasture. Have you noticed any discrepancies like this?
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I've seen a couple that are off mostly just one in Winchester (fancy hoa here) but other than that it's been really close we double check it with Google maps as well if it doesn't seem right.
 
chiselbit said:
I’ve got onX, seems inaccurate, i look at my property line going through my neighbors cargo containers 20’ from the fence line and wonder who’s right here? Another neighbor who’s family once owned the entire area told me the corner marker was buried in the street. OnX shows the corner 40’ out into the cow pasture. Have you noticed any discrepancies like this?
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According to onX I own my neighbour's bedroom and kitchen....

Not sure what the rules are down there, but here some jurisdictions (city, county, state) might have publicly accessible geomatics sources that are very accurate. Still not a legal survey, but better than a third party app.

An example of what we get to work with: http://geonb.snb.ca/geonb/
 
Boomslang said:
According to onX I own my neighbour's bedroom and kitchen....

Not sure what the rules are down there, but here some jurisdictions (city, county, state) might have publicly accessible geomatics sources that are very accurate. Still not a legal survey, but better than a third party app.

An example of what we get to work with: http://geonb.snb.ca/geonb/
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Wow. That goes into a lot more detail.
 
Onx...or anything else is all dependent on the quality of the information input into it. If the lines were digitized in 2001 by an intern using a digitizing table it's not going to quite as good as a set of data that has had a surveyor on the ground taking measurements that go right in the county's GIS. If properties haven't changed hands in 20 years, how likely is it that a surveyor has been on property?
 
Entitled a-holes everywhere you look these days. We're in the middle of a much, much dumber kerfuffle that involves cutting of a couple of one or one-and-a-half inch Siberian Elm root shoots, and a few snips on a Juniper -- on what turns out to be just over the property line of a lawyer neighbor of our client. Claims she is now exposed, though the whole area filled right back in. But: We didn't do the work, which I proved to the lawyer by showing her our most recent invoices on the client's property, which involved other work, and anyway predated this heinous act by quite a lot of time. Nonetheless, the lawyer recently sent an email threatening to make my life miserable and waste lots of my time, by subpoenaing me as a witness, unless I provided her with these same invoices. (Which I had already sent to my client, to share with the mediator she hired; so the lawyer would have seen them anyway, and ANYWAY, she didn't have to threaten me in order to get them). She also seems to think that we're interested in grinding the stumps (how dumb would that be, right adjacent to the parent trees of the root shoots) and plant replacement trees. I disabused her of that notion. Gawd.
 
Fred_Berkelhammer said:
on what turns out to be just over the property line
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In the last couple of weeks there was a thread that centered around doing a few snips of tip pruning of a neighbor tree to clear a flagpole.

There was a faction of commenters that said 'cut, don't talk with the neighbor/tree owner'

I sure hope that faction reads this thread and especially my Brother Fred's experiences before they trespass and cut without a chat.
 
I use Gaia gps on my phone when there is a question in the feild. It will show its estimated accuracy as x ft +/-. I have found it to be pretty damn accurate, if I have cell coverage. I typically work 5 acre parcels, so if I get a +/- of 16’ and it shows me I’m 60’ from a property line I will assume it’s their tree and provide a quote. BUT if there is enough question that it’s not obvious I will review on the county tax maps. If it’s still close I will require written permission from the neighbor regardless of actual ownership.
As I said there is a clause in my contract that whoever signs it, claims it’s their tree or has full permission from the tree owner. I’d still hate to try it out in court!
 
The adjoin property to me has been sold three times since I moved here. Each time it has been surveyed, and each time the line has changed. It has moved almost 50 feet from one survey to another survey. I have gotten along nicely with all of those neighbors and none of us has really given a damn where the line actually is. It is just forest where nothing will be cleared or altered in the foreseeable future.
I don't think I could live in a town setting where I could see my neighbor's house and people squabble over whose 3 inches the fence is on. That would drive me nuts in short order. When you pack people together like that, everything becomes intensified and super important. As Paul Hogan once said, "See that big rock over there? It has been there for millions of years, and it will be there millions of years after we are gone. No point in arguing about who owns it."
In reality we own nothing, we are just renting. Stop paying your rent (the owners call it, property tax) and see who really owns what you think is your place.
 
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