GILES POINT SOFTWAREGeospatial Intelligence Linking Evidence for Surveyors
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LABEL

Location-Aware Boundary Evidence Labeling

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Plan, place, and maintain survey annotation in Autodesk CAD with scale-specific boundary layouts, collision-aware placement, exact drawing relationships, and complete subdivision lot preparation.

LABEL does more than generate survey text. It evaluates how annotation can fit the drawing, remembers the surveyor's presentation decisions, and keeps calculated facts tied to the exact selected drawing objects while wording and placement remain under surveyor control. Linked annotation remains dormant until its own registered anchor changes; unrelated drawing objects do not start the update. Supported GIS-backed labels and quick views can also work in a local-coordinate drawing through GIS Evidence Workspace's Approximate Local Drawing Setup. A planned autoLABEL direction aims to assemble a reviewable first-draft drawing from one closed boundary - roads, waters, adjoiners, and labels placed in minutes, with located areas snapped to the surveyor's own points - and will be presented here only when it reaches its own acceptance gates.

LOTS - Lot Organization, Tracking & Setup

Prepare an entire subdivision in one working preview

Select Lot 1 and LABEL assembles one simplified interactive view for reviewing the subdivision before it places the managed lot annotation or opens the optional Enhanced DESCRIBE batch handoff.

  • All mode searches closed model-space polylines independently of the current AutoCAD view, starts recognized lots checked, keeps possible lots visible for review, and excludes unrelated closed shapes.
  • Pan and zoom; include or exclude lots; choose automatic, clockwise, counterclockwise, serpentine, or manual order; edit numbers and trailing text; swap lot identities by typing or dragging; and place each label where it belongs.
  • The preview shows actual vector and readable annotation context, measures the proposed AutoCAD MText footprint, displays overlap warnings, and can find cleaner positions without hiding a valid lot.
  • Each placed label retains its exact surveyor-drawn boundary identity, boundary-derived acreage, stable lot and batch identity, user text, position, and review state through supported refreshes and one-for-one number swaps.
  • When Enhanced DESCRIBE is enabled, Road, Feature, Manual, or Later POB preparation is available, any displayed exact lot corner can replace a proposal with one click, and Send Lots opens DESCRIBE's Lot Batch workspace with ready and held lots kept visible.

Designed capabilities

  • Boundary-course labels and native course tables with separate layouts for each annotation scale
  • Acreage labels, corner labels and symbols, boundary points, and monument notes
  • Anchor-linked coordinate and station-and-offset labels that update only from their own registered drawing relationships
  • Parcel, adjoiner, and physical-address labels from supported MapWV record lookups
  • Road, creek, watercourse, and watershed labels from supported source connections
  • Parcel, road, and creek quick-view identifiers that retrieve available source details without first creating a label
  • Detail insets, text alignment and borders, annotation-scale repair, and module-specific refresh and audit tools
  • LOTS subdivision discovery, interactive preview, numbering, placement, boundary-linked acreage, refresh, and audit inside LABEL
  • Optional drawing-resident evidence and controlled Lot Batch preparation that Enhanced DESCRIBE can validate when both products are enabled
  • Angle Optimizer: closure-aware bearing and distance rounding with an honest side-by-side misclosure comparison
  • Sequential lot numbering, with coordinated multi-lot description batching into DESCRIBE in development
  • Simplified in-app drawing views with one-click jump to the live AutoCAD drawing, zoomed and temporarily highlighted at the spot under review
Professional boundary

MapWV and other supported source connections supply the record or feature information used by the selected label command. Surveyor-selected CAD geometry supplies boundary courses, lot boundaries, areas, points, stations, offsets, and exact drawing relationships. Approximate Local Drawing Setup provides approximate GIS context, not survey control. Each managed annotation stays dormant until its own registered anchor changes. Save and autosave handoffs use the compact managed-label index and leave unrelated drawing content alone.

Inside LABEL

Purpose-built tools for each part of survey annotation.

Open the tool you need, keep its exact drawing relationship, and leave unrelated drawing content alone.

Scale-aware placement

LABEL plans annotation for the sheet you are actually preparing.

Boundary Labeler and the automatic-placement tools do more than generate text. They evaluate available room, drawing scale, existing annotation, and the presentation decisions the surveyor has already made.

Best fit for each course

Boundary Labeler measures the available course and chooses a single bearing-and-distance line when it fits, a stacked call when needed, or a shifted leader when the line cannot carry readable text.

Tables only when the scale needs them

When several straight or curved calls are too crowded, automatic mode can use native line or curve tables. A 1 inch = 200 feet sheet can use a table while the same boundary at 1 inch = 50 feet returns to ordinary course labels.

Independent memory at every scale

Positions, anchors, rotations, formatting, table placement, and explicit per-course label-or-table choices are retained separately for each annotation scale and restored when that scale returns.

Type surveyor wording once

Surveyor-added wording is retained by its course and field meaning, then reapplied across the boundary's attached scales without replacing the authoritative bearing, distance, or curve facts.

Collision-aware first placement

Automatic-placement tools throughout LABEL check occupied annotation space, try the next clean candidate or a small adjustment, and keep unavoidable overlap visible for surveyor review.

Readable through rotated viewports

Where sheet-horizontal presentation applies, LABEL accounts for a rotated paper-space viewport so the text keeps the intended readable orientation on the finished sheet.

Boundary calls, area, and comparison

Create course annotation and comparison evidence from the exact geometry the surveyor selects, without letting presentation become boundary authority.

Boundary Labeler

Measures each straight and curved course at the active scale, chooses single-line, stacked, leader, or native table presentation by available room, and restores the surveyor's separate reviewed layout whenever that scale returns.

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Acreage Labeler

Calculates from one exact closed boundary, retains the unrounded area and selected unit conversion, updates from that boundary, and visibly marks a broken or invalid relationship stale.

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ANGLE OPTIMIZER

Compares permitted bearing-rounding alternatives, endpoint swing, closure, and relative precision while preserving the original boundary and leaving the selection to the surveyor.

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Subdivision lots, corners, and monuments

Prepare a full lot set, preserve point identity, and build corner annotation without losing the exact boundary relationships behind the visible drawing.

Boundary Points

Creates missing boundary points in Automatic or Detailed mode, preserves occupied point numbers, supports subdivision number blocks, and uses the optional Civil 3D adapter only when native COGO points are requested.

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Corner Labeler

Associates supported point, block, legend, and approved plat-convention evidence with exact boundary corners and creates anchored labels that remain reviewable and refreshable.

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Corner Symbols

Places survey symbols from the surveyor's point-description template, keeps ambiguous or unmapped evidence visible for review, and leaves every symbol movable presentation.

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Symbol Upgrader

Turns a surveyor-drawn or imported corner symbol into a reusable annotative symbol, with a deliberate insertion anchor and optional background mask, while preserving the source.

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Coordinates, stationing, and ownership text

Connect calculated labels and supported record text to the exact selected target or guide while keeping the visible annotation editable.

Coordinate Labeler

With a real assigned CRS, labels grid coordinates, latitude and longitude, or both from a selected target. Under Approximate Local Drawing Setup, only fixed low-precision grid values are permitted and they are visibly marked as not survey control.

Station / Offset Labeler

Calibrates an open centerline, calculates line or circular-arc station and perpendicular offset, handles station equations, and supports centerline station checks.

LABEL ONE

Uses a selected point and supported MapWV record lookup to create one ownership label at a surveyor-controlled approximate placement without treating tax geometry as the survey boundary.

LABEL ADJOINERS

Finds candidate touching tax-map neighbors, measures each complete MText and frame, and places the ownership text on the appropriate approximate side while the surveyor's CAD linework remains authoritative.

Address Labeler

Builds a physical-address label from supported parcel and address fields, including available city, ZIP, and ZIP+4 information, then places it where the surveyor chooses.

Quick-view identifiers

Inspect available parcel, road, or watercourse information at a selected drawing coordinate without first creating a label or leaving the drawing.

Road and water-feature labeling

Retrieve supported feature identity and retain its source path separately from the editable AutoCAD wording and placement.

Road Labeler

Resolves supported public route numbers and road names, previews ambiguity, places independently movable annotation, and can follow either its stored source path or a surveyor-selected drawing curve.

Creek & Watercourse Labeler

Queries the active state-pack hydro source, separates creek and other watercourse presentation, and supports placement along stored source paths or an explicitly selected drawing curve.

Watershed Labeler

Creates a watershed statement only from a reviewed complete downstream trace to the first verified river and retains the selected boundary identity so stale topology can be detected.

Road Cleanup

Repairs only explicitly selected open same-layer road polylines when tangent and offset evidence is clear, and circles ambiguous areas instead of guessing.

Drawing presentation and maintenance

Finish annotation cleanly with tools that act only on the selected or registered LABEL objects involved in that task.

Text Alignment

Rotates selected text to a chosen line or curve, keeps it readable, and updates only that linked text when its registered drawing anchor changes.

Safe MText Fitting

Removes accidental columns and excess box dimensions only when a non-destructive check proves the visible line structure will remain unchanged.

Detail Inset

Creates an independent editable detail block from a selected area, compensates included text for the enlargement, and leaves the source geometry unchanged.

Annotation Scale Repair

Explicitly applies the drawing's defined annotation-scale contexts to existing owned annotation without polling idle time, view changes, or unrelated drawing activity.