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Legal land guides
Plain-language notes for reading the description, reaching the field and knowing where a mobile estimate stops.
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Try Legal Land Locator with three free lookups. Turn supported PLSS, DLS or ATS descriptions into offline navigation estimates and saved field records.
GuideTownship range section finder: how to read a PLSS location
A field-ready explanation of PLSS descriptions, principal meridians, aliquots and offline coordinate lookup.
GuideWestern Canada legal land description locator
How LSD, section, township, range and meridian descriptions become navigation-ready field coordinates.
GuideConvert an Alberta LSD to GPS coordinates
A practical guide to converting Alberta LSD and ATS descriptions into a navigation estimate on iPhone or iPad.
GuidePLSS vs DLS: what changes in a legal land description?
A concise comparison of U.S. PLSS and Canadian DLS or ATS descriptions for field workers.