ADOPT OBSERVATION SEQUENCE

Used for dealing with the remaining land under survey where there are Landonline recorded observations.

The Surveyor-General's Rules require all the land under survey to be dealt with. Creation of undefined balance parcels is not allowed. In Landonline, this also applies to coastal, river and legalisation surveys, where previously the surveyor has not dealt with the balance parcels.

Adopt Observation Sequence allows the latest observations to be adopted directly from Landonline into the e-survey, without the need to manually enter the marks and observations. Observations can be adopted in a sequence or individually. Adopting observations also adopts the marks at each end of the observation.

The marks and observations will appear in the Mark List and Traverse Bdy Capture screens. Note the observation will be adopted as-is. If the survey from which they are adopted requires a bearing swing to be applied, Landonline will not automatically apply it. It may need to be applied manually. These observations would generally be of Survey Class I, II or III and are the authoritative record.

If there were no observations in Landonline for the boundaries that are to be included, use Processing Balance Parcels to include the boundary line. This would be used for the newly created parcel that will be of a lower Class of Survey, ie a Parcel Diagram of Class IV, than other parcels (eg Class I, II or III) in the same e-survey.

The observations adopted may include right lines and arcs. For irregular boundary adoption, use Select Existing Irregular Boundary.

The process may need to be carried out more than once for an e-survey.

Adopting Observations can be carried out any time during capture of the e-survey before capturing any old and new marks and observations.

Landonline maintains the existing layer for the observation adopted into the e-survey. This means that a primary parcel boundary will be adopted as a primary parcel boundary. The observation layer can be edited in the Traverse Bdy Capture screen. Edit this if, for example, adopting a primary boundary for part of an easement, or where part of the boundary is both primary and easement boundary.