Calculating acres in Google Earth

Posted by blunosr on April 30, 2012 at 03:56:03 from (66.183.225.141):

Hi, I wanted to estimate the size of one of my fields, which has an irregular shape so I figured out how to do that using Google Earth. More to the point, someone else figured it out, and I watched it on Youtube and got it to work.

I bought the land as 40 acres (as advertized), and I always thought it odd that the tax statement had it divided into three parts (20, 12, and 8ac) according to land use. There are two Property Identification (PID) numbers for the land, which do not match any of the numbers on the tax forms, although the tax form doesn't have PID numbers listed.

Anyways, it seems like the "40 acres" is actually only 32ac according to my measurements on Google Earth, and that matches two of the divisions on the taxes... I'm going to go into the tax office and get to the bottom of this!!!

I wonder how common it is for land to be bought and sold, and taxed, without really being the correct size?

You can see how to do the area measurement on Google Earth on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnuRQE0_cIU

The Earthpoint site wants you to pay to sign up, but it does allow you to export to excel, which allows you to see the area without signing up.

Bye for now,

Troy

Replies:

• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth surv 10:43:46 05/04/12 (2)
  • Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth magzen 17:11:59 05/11/12 (0)
  • Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth farmer325 16:46:09 05/06/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth wisbaker 09:34:33 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth paul 08:45:37 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth JDseller 08:20:42 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth tjdub 07:38:32 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth dieselbreath 07:34:28 04/30/12 (1)
  • Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth Mike (WA) 08:34:40 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth GeneMO 06:30:29 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: More or Less blunosr 06:03:49 04/30/12 (0)
• More or Less John T Country Lawyer 04:43:01 04/30/12 (3)
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• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth showcrop 04:25:59 04/30/12 (0)
• Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth NEBeef 04:20:15 04/30/12 (1)
  • Re: Calculating acres in Google Earth Daryl in PA 06:06:04 04/30/12 (0)

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