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Net Deed Plotter Formatter

Paste the metes-and-bounds description and get every course written the exact way Greenbriar Net Deed Plotter reads it, like N22.1310E 200.7. Everything runs on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

Paste the description

Paste the "beginning at, thence" body of the deed. Worded or symbol formats both work (for example "North 12 degrees 30 minutes East 250 feet" or "N12°30'E 250'").

Net Deed Plotter calls

Type or paste these into Net Deed Plotter, one per line, starting at the first thence. Review every course against the deed before you rely on it.

Formatted calls will appear here.
The format, in plain terms. Net Deed Plotter reads each straight course as Ndd.mmssE distance: quadrant, degrees, a period, then minutes and seconds as four digits, the second quadrant, a space, and the distance. So "North 22 degrees 13 minutes 10 seconds East, 200.7 feet" becomes N22.1310E 200.7. Varas keep a V on the distance. Curves are not parsed, so enter any curve by hand. Get the software at deedplotter.com, and see the McCracken Net Deed Plotter cheat sheet on the Tools page.

Working from a scanned deed? This tool needs typed or clean text. Scanned county deeds with rough OCR will not parse reliably. An AI deed reader that handles messy scans is in the works.