
In this article we explain some do-it-yourself methods of measuring your land and some high technology solutions.

From time to time you want to measure the area of your land and calculate how much it is worth.

You can always make use of the services of a land surveyor or a civil engineer, but that is expensive. But if the area of land is highly irregularly shaped or if you are purchasing large tracts of land like a farm measuring miles across, then how do you do the measurements? Recalling geometry studied in High School we can do the measurements and arrive at the results. Measuring regular land area like residential plots sold by real estate agents and land developers is easy as they have mostly rectangle or other geometrical shapes. Land needs to be measured for various reasons like prior to purchase, when doing stock taking, building a boundary wall, dispute with a neighbor over demarcation, etc.

Methods of Calculating or Measuring the Area of Land
