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Creating Parcel Tables
on February 05, 2019
As you can guess, property drawings can become quite cluttered with many labels for areas, bearings, distances, and curve dimensions. As the drawing becomes more complex, it might make sense to put all of that information in a table instead of trying to place it directly on the lines and curves. Line labels can be replaced with tags such as L1, L2, and so on, and the same can be done for curves. These abbreviated labels take up much less space than the full bearing and distance labels, making the drawing appear less cluttered and easier to read. Of course, the trade-off is that now the person viewing the drawing will have to scan back and forth between the drawing and the table to obtain all of the information that pertains to a given parcel. This is why not all drawings use tables to store parcel information. A drawing can be read more easily, and information obtained from it more efficiently, if the labels are placed directly on the lines and curves. However, for some drawings you simply cannot show the information directly on the lines and curves and you must use a table.