ReadNwrite - A 7 day writing Challenge - How to do anything - plotting of land - olabillions

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Today I will be tutoring on how to graphically represent a land on paper, this is my first time creating a post in regards to this, so I will try my best to make it easy, understanding, and simple

To represent a diagram of land on paper, there must have been record of the land in a field book.

what is a field book, it is a book the is used to make records of bearings and distances of any land surveyed.

A bearing is a number in degrees the indicate the direction of a land when traversing and the distance is the measurements taken during the process of traversing a land, while traversing is an act of taking measurements on a piece of land.

_{A field book containing bearing and distances}

Bearing(d- degree) (') - seconds)	distance (m)
289d 51’	18.9m
337d 00’	30.40m
46d 08’	35m
56d 10’	41.90m
59d 10’	27.65m
90d 16’	95.50m
171d 30’	26.40m
161d 30’	10.80m
186d 33’	62.25m
279d 49’	43.30m
292d 19’	63.86m
254d 45’	11.50m
278d 49’	12.50m
239d 42’	13.00m
209d 32’	24.30m

After having such detail of the land, then we proceed to collect other materials like

• Paper
• Set square
• Scale
• Eraser
• pencil
• protractor
• pen

Let's proceed on the steps to represent a portion of land, also known as PLOTTING.

Set the set square from the meeting point of the cardinal point to the first bearing marked on the paper, by this the direction his gotten, then after getting an accurate alignment, you draw a line and from the line drawn, you measure the distance(in this case 18.9m) with the scale (1:1000), and at the end of the measurement, you indicate it with a small box which is referred to as the pillar point or station point.

The same implies to other bearings (i mean the alignment of the angle of the cardinal point to other bearings) but the only difference here and which will continue until the last bearing is that after the alignment, we use both set squares and trace to the previous point i.e the previous pillar points, of which this will be continued until the last bearing and distance respectively.

At this point, the whole bearing and distance are already recorded on the paper and a shape is being formed, I then traced the pillar points and distances with a blue pen and also indicated the existing road as it is on the earth's surface.

In the end, the bearings and distance will be written respectively.

In my way, I have been able to describe the steps by which you can represent a land on paper.

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Written by:- @olabillions