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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

  3. mmap - Wikipedia

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    The main difference between System V shared memory (shmem) and memory mapped I/O (mmap) is that System V shared memory is persistent: unless explicitly removed by a process, it is kept in memory and remains available until the system is shut down. mmap'd memory is not persistent between application executions (unless it is backed by a file).

  4. Cadastral surveying - Wikipedia

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    Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.

  5. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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    A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map . In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to define the dimensions and location of ...

  6. Graduate real estate education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One and two-year graduate level real estate degree programs originated with the founding of the New York University Real Estate Institute in (1967) [1] (now known as the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate) and in 1983 with the formation of the MIT Center for Real Estate. [2] Soon after, other schools followed with Texas A&M University (1984 ...

  7. Undergraduate real estate programs in the United States

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    The U.S. News & World Report ranks the top 13 undergraduate programs which offer a study in real estate. [7] However, many schools on the U.S. News & World Report list (University of Florida [3] and Cornell University, [8] [9] for example) do not actually offer undergraduate degrees (majors) in Real Estate, and alternatively run a "focus" or "minor" in Real Estate under their Finance departments.

  8. Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis

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    [26] [27] The Laboratory was an enormous influence on the commercial Environmental Systems Research Institute, Esri, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, a landscape architect graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design who had worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory during 1968 and 1969. Scott Morehouse, the development lead for the ...

  9. National Topographic System - Wikipedia

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    Topographic mapping in Canada was originally undertaken by many different agencies, with the Canadian Army’s Intelligence Branch forming a survey division to create a more standardized mapping system in 1904. The indexing system used today was established in 1923, and the map catalogue officially became the National Topographic System in 1926 ...