Meanings
- uncountableThe establishment of permanent objects on the ground (surveyor's monuments) that mark legally binding exact locations of surveyed points and lines.
Three types of monumentation are used in urban control: ground monumentation, wall monumentation, and rooftop markers .
2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, page 694 more examples
The monumentation set for GPS projects varies widely and can range from brass tablets to aerial premarks, capped rebar, or even pin flags.
2001, Jan Van Sickle, GPS for Land Surveyors, page 200The intra-agency agreement between FIA and the Wilderness and Wild & Scenic River programs determines how to conduct monumentation in wilderness and all alternatives are consistent with this agreement.
2006, Tongass and Chugach National Forest (N.F.),, page A-8The notes were the best record of what was done, how it was done, the order in which it was done, what was measured, what was encountered along the way, and how monumentation was accomplished.
2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 112Many easement boundaries are created on paper, that is, without benefit of a survey or monumentation, or they may be created by law, which includes prescription, implication, or necessity.
2009, Walter G. Robillard, Donald A. Wilson, Curtis M. Brown, Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles, page 216
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