I swear I was able to do this years ago and now I cannot.
I view them in Zillow. There are also various online GIS maps that might work. I don’t recall Google maps ever having this feature.
Cool, I am looking for any solution. Looking at my property I see the Google Maps AND Google Earth images, but they are not together.
I assume that would not be reliable anyway. Sometimes they can’t even get the lines indicating roads to line up with their images.
Your assessor/local land people might have a parcel viewer online. Most places 'round here do (Wyoming and Idaho); I use them constantly, since I make maps and plat subdivisions.
ETA: I may have misunderstood what you were going for…
Search for the county auditor’s GIS site.
Google Maps shows property lines, but only in some areas, and only if you zoom in really close. They tend to be displayable in more densely populated areas. When I zoom in so the scale says 50 feet, I see property lines within a mile or two of the downtown area of the small city of Sanford, Maine (pop. 22,000), but there are no property lines shown in the outlying areas of the same city, and none at all in a couple of neighboring towns that I checked. The somewhat larger city of Dover, N.H., has no property boundaries on Google Maps, as far as I can tell. I don’t see any property lines on Google Earth Pro, and can’t find any way to display them.
For anything critical, I wouldn’t trust anything you find online, even from government sources. The town government’s tax map for my brother’s place was wildly inaccurate until he complained and got it fixed; there had been at least one subdivision of the property the county knew about but the town somehow never got the message. For something important like cutting trees, building driveways, outbuildings, or fences, drilling wells, or settling boundary disputes with an abutter, consult a licensed surveyor.
Yes. That’s what I do.
OP, visit your county’s web site. Will likely have a link through the Assessor or GIS. Different counties do it different ways. Sometimes it’s all managed by the Assessor, sometimes it’s a department all on it’s own. Our county is a hybrid, with GIS making the maps, but it links to the Assessors tabular data. That’s pretty typical.
This is correct. GIS accuracy varies a great deal, even in the same county. Below is our disclaimer -
The information contained herein is for tax assessment purposes only and the Summit County Government, its elected/appointed officials, employees, and agents disclaim any and all claims, loss, damage or liability arising out of the use of the information herein, including any errors or omissions. The maps created on the web site are for the display purposes only and do not comply with National Mapping accuracy standards. Do not use for legal conveyance.
Not necessarily accurate by surveying standards.
It really depends on what you are using it for. Also, the County Clerk and Recorder will have your subdivision plat available. Possibly online, but you will probably have to visit them.
I took a university course on computer cartography, back in the mid-80’s when they were first entering data and computerizing maps. The prof mentioned that in processing maps from more remote rural and wild areas, they had run across areas where the coordinates were wildly inaccurate by a mile or more, and even elevation was off by as much as 600 feet. One interpretation is lazy surveyors in the days before calculators, either relying on much older sightings or math errors. I guess who cares if some lake in the deep woods is not exactly where it should be?
(He mentioned one department where the maps were all in weird shades of yellow, red, and brown. Turned out the department head was partially colour-blind.)
In the county I work for (GIS) we have a Bearing Tree Rd. Back in the day they used a tree for a monument to take sightings from (the ‘bearing tree’). Tree is long gone now of course.