
Metes and Bounds by Sandy Knoll Software, LLC is available for Windows, Macintosh, iPhone, iPod Touch, and now is available in a special iPad version that takes advantage of the larger screen. Metes and Bounds is an application that can be quite useful for some genealogists as it allows you to take a property deed or other such land description that you may come across in your genealogy research, and turn it into an actual plat drawing.
Metes and Bounds supports many units of measurement, including: feet, meters, and varas. It calculates the area, perimeter and closing error of the plot.
The iPhone/iPad version allows you to email the file to your desktop or laptop Mac or Windows PC to be loaded into the Mac OS X or Windows version of Metes and Bounds.
Metes and Bounds for the iPad sells for $4.99 and is available through Apple’s App Store.