For landmen and acquisition teams

Stop building shapefiles by hand.

TractEdge drafts a legal description into an editable tract anchored to the survey it names, in under a minute. Paste one deed or upload a runsheet CSV.

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Source description

BEGINNING at the Northeast corner of Section 7, Block M, EL&RR RR Co Survey, Abstract 271, Dawson County, Texas; (worth a look) THENCE S 0°24' W 1,422 varas to a point for corner; (grounded to the deed) THENCE S 82°53' W 680 varas to a point in a draw; (grounded to the deed) THENCE N 37°07' W 717 varas to a point for corner; (grounded to the deed) THENCE N 0°56' E 943 varas to a point in the north line of said Section 7; (worth a look) THENCE S 89°33' E 1,102 varas to the PLACE OF BEGINNING, (grounded to the deed)containing 269 acres, more or less.

Grounded to the deed
Worth a look
Needs review

A representative sample description. The anchor, geometry and closure values were produced by TractEdge’s current pipeline using public survey data.

Closure

0.70ft

Precision

1:19,414

Acres

269.31deed calls 269

Working CRS

NAD83TX North Central (ftUS) · EPSG:2276

TractEdge is a drafting aid, not a survey. It drafts working geometry from a written description and public reference data. It does not replace a licensed professional land surveyor, and it does not determine a boundary.

The cost of evaluation

Say legal descriptions cross your desk in a month, and you plot of them.

185 descriptions a month go unplotted. TractEdge lets you evaluate more of them.

Plotting a metes-and-bounds tract and anchoring it to the right survey is one to two hours of skilled work, or $100 to $200 of a contract landman’s time. At that price you only plot the deals you are already serious about. TractEdge makes plotting cheap enough to draw every description that reaches you.

When descriptions arrive as a runsheet, upload the CSV. Every row drafts as its own tract under one batch, and the batch exports together.

Survey anchoring

Place the calls on the referenced survey.

A deed plotter draws the shape and leaves you to work out where it sits: resolving “Section 7, Block M, EL&RR RR Co Survey, Abstract 271” against public survey geometry and finding the point of beginning on it.

TractEdge matches the survey reference to public RRC geometry and places the point of beginning when the reference data supports it. Matched boundary calls follow the corresponding reference line. Review the result before export.

What comes back

A georeferenced tract: computed acreage you can check against the deed call by call, a polygon that drops onto your existing mapping, and the state-reported wells in and around it. Exports are shapefiles with GeoJSON and KML alongside, in your Texas State Plane datum.

See how TractEdge fits alongside mapped-data platforms, deed plotters and manual GIS workflows on the how-it-works page.

Before you export

Every value shows its work.

Paste the description, review the draft against the source text, export the bundle. Everything the draft did is visible at the middle step, and the drafting pipeline is tested against hundreds of live deed descriptions.

In the deed pane: Every value is tied to the words it came from
Select a call and the phrase it came from highlights in the deed. A value that can't be grounded in the text gets its confidence zeroed, and any sentence the draft didn't use stays marked.
In the calls table: All the math happens in a deterministic engine
Bearings, distances, closure and area come from pure code with exact vara and chain constants. The reading step can vary between runs; once the calls and the anchor are fixed, the geometry is repeatable. You have the last word on all of it.
On the readout: Closure is reported before you export
Every tract reports its misclosure in feet and the surveyor's precision ratio beside the polygon. Review those figures before exporting.
At export: NAD27 exports require grid-based transforms
If the required NADCON5 grid is unavailable, export remains unavailable rather than using a lower-accuracy transform.

Try it

Use one of your own descriptions.

Two free drafts, no card. The trial runs the same pipeline, survey lookup and closure report a paying account gets.

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Exporting is what you pay for: one tract for $20, or a plan.

What happens to your description. We use it only to draft your tract, and delete every copy we control on request.

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