Mike Schiewe, Vice President, Operations, WhiteStar Corporation Unveils metes and bounds tool to build accurate leases.

1. Generating Accurate
Business Polygons
Mike Schiewe
Vice President, Operations
WhiteStar Corp

2. Preview
• Introduction
• Building Blocks For Accurate Business Polygons
• Introduce WhiteStar Legal Mapper – Metes and
Bounds
• WhiteStar Legal Mapper - LeaseBuilder
• Summary
• More Information
• Questions

3. An Introduction
• Mike Schiewe – Vice President, Operations
• BS Degree in Geography with a
Cartography/Remote Sensing Concentration –
Minor in Conservation
• Started GIS with Platte River Digital
Cartography Fall 1995
• Joined WhiteStar January 1999

4. Building Blocks For Accurate Business Polygons
Accurate
Business
Polygons
Accurate
Data
SoftwareServices
- WhiteStar Grid (PLSS – Texas)
- Lots, Tracts and Quarter-Quarters
- Parcels
- Imagery – Spatial on Demand
- WhiteStar Legal Mapper
• WellSpotter
• LeaseBuilder
• Metes and Bounds
- Legal Description Clean Up
- Legal Description Mapping
- Workflow Integration

5. Accurate Business Polygons
Driving better
business
decisions
Imagery stream credit:

6. Introducing Metes and Bounds

7. Metes and bounds, limits or boundaries of a
tract of land as identified by natural landmarks,
such as rivers, or by man-made structures, such
as roads, or by stakes or other markers. A
principal legal type of land description in the
United States, metes-and-bounds descriptions
are commonly used wherever survey areas are
irregular in size and shape.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/metes-and-bounds/

8. Metes and Bounds Legal Description

9. ArcGIS Pro Integration
ArcGIS Pro Module Add-In
(.NET SDK) integrates:
• Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) and
parameter detection
• Metes and Bounds
Segment Editor for
constructing plats
• Metes and Bounds Cloud
Services for polygon
download and project
control

10. Workflow

11. OCR and Parameter Detection
Populate and edit
segment
parameters from
scanned deeds
View linked
parameter regions
in document scans
Track changes and
revisions

12. Metes and Bounds Segments
• Point of beginning (commencement)
• Run
–Bearing and distance
• Curve
–Multiple curve types
• Meander
–Following a river or natural feature

13. Segment Editing
Set point of beginning
via OCR, manual input
or Legal Land
Descriptions via
WhiteStar Cloud
Add and edit runs,
curves and meanders
to build and close the
polygon

14. Segment Editing
Add segments, working
forward and backward from
the Point of Beginning to
close the polygon
Closure distance and
bearing diagnostic

15. WhiteStar Legal Mapper – LeaseBuilder
• Map PLSS legal land descriptions
• WhiteStar Wizard – Free iOS app
• WhiteStar Cloud – points/polygons – web app
• ArcGIS Pro Add-In
• FME Transformer on FME Hub
• Rest API

16. Summary
• Don’t hand map your legal descriptions.
• Exciting new mapping tool with Metes and Bounds.
• Map in PLSS, non-PLSS including Texas, or even
internationally.
• LeaseBuilder allows users to map individual PLSS
legal land descriptions or in batches.
• Integrated with ArcGIS Pro
• Embed into your business workflows using WhiteStar
Legal Mapper API or FME

17. More Information / Free Trial

18. Questions?
www.whitestar.com
mike@whitestar.com