TerrainPlot
TerrainPlot (now LineWork) is a software platform that automatically converts survey records—including legal descriptions, plats, and aliquot parts—into editable CAD geometry. The system handles messy documents like scans and cursive, links all geometry back to its source, and flags uncertainties and closure issues. It delivers downloadable .dxf files and closure reports within one business day.
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Founders
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Product
Problem
Land surveyors spend hours manually converting legal descriptions, plats, and aliquot parts into CAD geometry, a process that is error-prone and tedious. Messy records—cursive, scans of scans, or complicated legals—make the task even harder, and traditional deed plotters require manual typing and don't handle complex documents well.
Solution
LineWork (formerly TerrainPlot) turns survey records into CAD geometry automatically. Users drop in a single file or entire folder—PDF, .doc, .tiff, or .jpeg—and the software finds every legal description, plat, and bit of geodata across the document. It converts metes-and-bounds descriptions into geometry with monuments and annotations, turns aliquot parts into properly georeferenced shapes using BLM public data, and redraws plats or maps as real geometry based on bearings, distances, and curves—no traced images. All geometry is editable and linked back to its source, with uncertainties flagged and closure shown. The system delivers editable CAD back to the user within one business day.
Target Audience
Primary users are professional land surveyors (PLS) and surveying firms who need to convert records into CAD geometry for drafting, title work, and boundary surveys.
Features
- Accepts messy documents including cursive, scans, and 200-page title packages in PDF, .doc, .tiff, or .jpeg formats
- Automatically detects and links every legal description, plat, and geodata element across the document to its source
- Converts metes-and-bounds descriptions into geometry including monuments, annotations, and tie lines
- Turns aliquot descriptions into georeferenced shapes using BLM public section data
- Redraws plats and maps as full geometry from bearings, distances, and curves without tracing
- Includes a shape solver that detects flipped bearings and transposed digits when shapes don't close, showing exact before/after comparisons
- Flags uncertainties, shows closure, and provides downloadable .dxf files and closure reports