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Phone app GPS to measure distance / acreage


I have the "GPS Locater" app on my phone. Fun to play with and it will pinpoint the location of my truck in a huge parking lot. I've never attempted to use it for measuring distance or acres. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
 
No, but no reason you can't. I bought a $99 Garmin I think Explorer, el cheapo and it worked just fine for a tool that was capable of answering
that question. Used it walking one day and I was walking at 2.7 mph. Locked up to 7 satellites usually.....that's a pretty good "triangulation" if
you ask me.

Then just 208 x 208 for an acre (43,264 sq. ft.). For small/irregular pieces just measure off little boxes that approximate the areas and add
them up.
 
Acme Planometer available on line. Not a gps on phone, uses satellite mapping, you establish a bunch of points around
perimeter of your plot, it does the rest. Very accurate!
 
i use an app called HuntStand. It's free and you can measure straight lines, draw any shape and it gives you it's area.
 
I got a free one last year but it didn't work very well. Can't remember the name. I would not settle to an accurate location and was a huge battery drain on the phone. It put me 200 feet away in the neighbors driveway when I was in the house. I'll try the ones mentioned here. I'd like to measure the acreage when I cut hay.
 
Yes I used it regularly when bush hogging .Most customers where honest and accurate on the size of a plot of land. But some may
fudge quite a lot.Gave me a leg to stand on when disputes occured.Gps was very accurate.Measured feet,acres, hectares, square
foot.
 
(quoted from post at 16:02:29 03/04/17) Yes I used it regularly when bush hogging .Most customers where honest and accurate on the size of a plot of land. But some may
fudge quite a lot.Gave me a leg to stand on when disputes occured.Gps was very accurate.Measured feet,acres, hectares, square
foot.
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What kind was it ?
 
Same one I use earlier versions were better less adds but it works good can measure from map or use GPS on phone and drive around field.
 
You won't likely find an extra-accurate locator, like for a property line dispute for free or for a small amount.

For figuring acreage of a field to rent or similar, it is hard to beat using Google Maps. Just go to the satellite version, right click and measure distance. Draw a closed figure of any number of sides and the program auto calculates square footage to you!!
 
Hello Texasmarc1,

According to Wikipedia Quote "one acre is defined as an area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile,43560 square feet, approximately 4,047 square meters, or about 40℅ of an hectare" End of quote. It is obviously not 43.264 sq. ft.

GUIDO.
 
Hello ton stalker,

A tax map would be my choice. It may stop some of the fibbing! Tax office will make you a copie.....

Guido.
 
Hello
Texasmark1,

Actually one acre is about 208.7feet and some more decimal!. I grew up with the metric system. 1 hectare in the metric system is EXACTLY 10.000^2. no shoe size needed to measure!

GUIDO.
 
(quoted from post at 17:08:14 03/04/17) You won't likely find an extra-accurate locator, like for a property line dispute for free or for a small amount.

For figuring acreage of a field to rent or similar, it is hard to beat using Google Maps. Just go to the satellite version, right click and measure distance. Draw a closed figure of any number of sides and the program auto calculates square footage to you!!
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I just use google maps to quote any new brushhogging jobs. I can talk to the customer on the phone while looking at the property on my laptop....saves time and gas!
 
(quoted from post at 18:43:10 03/04/17) Hello Texasmarc1,

According to Wikipedia Quote "one acre is defined as an area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile,43560 square feet, approximately 4,047 square meters, or about 40? of an hectare" End of quote. It is obviously not 43.264 sq. ft.

GUIDO.
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I've always used 5280 squared, divided by 640...
 
(quoted from post at 18:43:10 03/04/17) Hello Texasmarc1,

According to Wikipedia Quote "one acre is defined as an area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile,43560 square feet, approximately 4,047 square meters, or about 40? of an hectare" End of quote. It is obviously not 43.264 sq. ft.

GUIDO.
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I've always used 5280 squared, divided by 640...
 
Most measurements around here came about (and persist) prior to the availability of GPS accuracy. Considering topography, measurement skills, available equipments, and attitude to get it right or not, a lot of measurements were best guesses, or following old (wagon trail) roads, or somebody't fence row and all that. Most country roads are built along property boundaries so there are a lot of sharp S curves in the roads and all.

The last acreage I bought the owner and I paced off the dimensions and took them to the title company where the official document was prepared. It's still a matter of record at the county clerk's office and current land sales are GPS positioned off these recorded deeds......happening this minute....marker posts with Fluorescent Orange flags are everywhere, several surveyed off my property lines. Nobody has come to me and said my fences were in the wrong place.

Hay is sold by the bale. No scales handy, nearest is 20 miles and does grain only. Besides individual bales vary due to numerous variances so you'd have to weigh each, or load a truck and weigh it before, back to the farm, load it, back to the scale, back to the buyer's place....we just don't go to that trouble.

A guy needs pasture work done, it's not "measure and do by the acre", it's "what would you charge to........." sort of thing.
 
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