Talk:Section (United States land surveying)

message: I think it would be nice to have a section which would provide links for conversion to other ways of measurement.  Such as UTM, Lat/Long (degrees, mintues, seconds) ... etc.
Also, what about a consideration of a Quadrangle?  What it is and how it is accounted for...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.238.148.194 (talk) 17:02, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to other measurements 

message: The An exception section contains a sentence or two about Cherokee County, Georgia not being part of the PLSS and containing irregular sections.  That is hardly unique.  There are lots of places that were not part of the PLSS and contain irregular sections.  There are places that are not part of PLSS that contain no sections, at least not on the topo maps that I've seen.  There are other places that are part of the PLSS but which contain oddball sections where old French or Spanish land grands, e.g., predate the establishment of the US PLSS; Missouri is generally platted to the PLSS, but in the middle of a regular township grid you'll see the occasional diamond section or other oddity, such as this.  I doubt Missouri is unique in this regard, though I don't know.
In my opinion this section of the article (pun unavoidable) should be rewritten to that general topic and not be just about one county in Georgia.  In my further opnion, the details of the what and why of departures from the norm belong in the PLSS article, and all this article needs is the fact that because of certain historical reasons, not all sections in all areas adhere to the 36 square sections per square township standard.  Unfortunately, I do not feel qualified to make such changes because I cannot state with certainty what all such conditions might be nor their relative occurence.  --Kbh3rdtalk 03:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exceptions 

message: The caption was wrong. In general the survey left a right of way on the section lines not the quarter sections. By actual measurement using Google Earth, the Indiana photo shows roads on section lines. Nick Beeson (talk) 00:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sections

message: I do not see anything about section 16 land. Here in MS this is land owned buy school districts which can be rented and other things. It gives the schools a small steady income. So, why is this not covered?
John W. Nicholson (talk) 04:48, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section 16 land? 

message: Useful, perhaps: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/470606/how-to-get-the-row-and-column-of-us-plss-sections/470607#470607 . Jidanni (talk) 13:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Row and column formula 

message: The photo from an airplane is obviously presented upside down! Title  Perfectly square 160-acre quarter sections of farmland cover Central Indiana. Who should fix that? Johnedwardmiller (talk) 23:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Johnedwardmiller How do you figure it's upside down? It makes sense that the closer (and apparently larger) squares are at the bottom of the image. —C.Fred (talk) 23:08, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Notice that the image Flips, when you click though to the large image.  The  1,600 × 1,200 pixels is upside down from all the other sizes in the File:Indy farmland.jpg page Johnedwardmiller (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Johnedwardmiller Sounds like a browser issue on your side. Clear your cache and try again. All image sizes are the same orientation from my desktop. —C.Fred (talk) 14:48, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: NOPE.  Same problem on my iPad. Johnedwardmiller (talk) 19:41, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  Try another browser.  For me the image and click-through are all identical in Chrome / Edge / Firefox web browsers on a Windows 10 computer.  • Sbmeirow • Talk • 20:59, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Large image displays upright using FireFox on same computer.  Safari on latest MacOS and iPad OS displays it upside down. GO figure! Johnedwardmiller (talk) 19:34, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Johnedwardmiller There must be some metadata for image orientation that Macs don't properly parse, I guess. I've run into similar issues with images on the Mac, but more in Photos than in Safari. —C.Fred (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo upside down!