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Land Surveyors, CFeds, PLSS

Land Surveyors

TPC Desktop  can handle any kind of land surveying mapping project from start to finish in one package. Breeze through small traverses or work through complex surveys.

TPC Desktop can help you map :

  • Control Surveys
  • Boundary Surveys
  • Site Surveys
  • Topographic Surveys
  • Cadastral and mortgage surveys
  • Construction Staking
  • Curve Stakeout
  • Subdivision Design
  • Road Layout
  • Plat Checks
  • Area computations
  • And many, many more. 

CFedS, PLSS

Whether you do metes and bounds or townships and sections, you’ll be right at home completing all your surveys with TPC Desktop™. We are the only land survey software that features PLSS with ground distance and true bearing via the 2009 BLM Manual of Survey from start to finish. That means better data, so there are no apparent misclosures when you close a section.

Other retail survey software doesn’t think in PLSS, but TPC Desktop does, and has all the tools too:

  • True direct and inverse geodetic computations
  • Ground distance areas – precise
  • Geodetic closures (say goodbye to Apparrant Misclosure)
  • Double and single proportion with batching from traverses
  • Grant boundary, irregular boundary, and more…
  • Geodetic mapping (true bearings and ground distances are automatic)
  • Drawing templates for Dependent Resurveys
  • Import GMM
  • Least Squares with blunder detection
  • Combine GPS / GNSS / Terrestrial / Compass & Chain / whatever you measure

Traverse PC is purpose-built for the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). Instead of manually drafting lines on a flat grid like generic CAD software, TPC uses mathematical closures and built-in PLSS routines to subdivide sections. This ensures true geodetic accuracy, allowing you to easily compute single and double proportioning with confidence.

Yes, TPC Desktop is highly utilized by Certified Federal Surveyors (CFedS) because its computations and deliverables natively adhere to the 2009 BLM Manual of Surveying Instructions. The software easily generates the exact cadastral reports, geodetic closures, and plats required for federal and tribal land projects.

Absolutely. Unlike traditional CAD programs that force you to work on a flat Cartesian plane, Traverse PC computes coordinates geodetically. This means your boundary retracements, PLSS surveys, and closures are calculated with real-world earth curvature in mind, providing survey-grade precision for large-area cadastral mapping.

raverse PC is famous for its “Works Like You Think” methodology. Because the software is driven by survey data (points and traverses) rather than drafting lines, land surveyors find the workflow incredibly intuitive. You simply manage the survey data, and TPC automatically updates the map, drastically reducing the learning curve and drafting time.

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