tract
an extended area of land
Research draft, second pass
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Researched by: Claude
Purpose and description
Let an agent handle land tracts by location, ownership, survey and planning records, and separate anatomical, religious and other senses.
An extended area of land, such as a tract of forest, farmland or undeveloped land, and in property and planning contexts a defined parcel or survey tract; census tracts are statistical areas. Digestive, nerve and religious tracts are different senses.
What it is for: Describing and managing areas of land.
It can be find records for a tract of land; understand survey and census tracts; check planning and use rules; separate other senses of tract.
Distinguishing features
Extended area of land
Recorded in surveys and registers
Used in planning and statistics
Many other senses
What it looks like
Areas of land shown on maps and survey plans.
How it is recognised
Large areas on maps
Survey and census tract numbers
A plot is usually a smaller parcel
Related models
is a kind of - category
is recorded in - record
is related to - farmland
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
forest and wild tracts
agricultural tracts
survey and subdivision tracts
census tracts
playing field areas (loose sense)
Standards and regulation
Land registration and survey law
Planning and zoning law
Census geography standards
Failure modes and hazards
Boundary disputes
Outdated survey records
Agents giving legal advice on land
Analytical facets
- substance
- place
- origin
- natural
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- fixed
- scale
- geographic
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Land Which tract.
Records identify.
Identify
Location and owner.
Identify
Tract identity.
- Where is this tract, and who owns or manages it, according to official records? provenance
- What is its area? measurement
Use
Land use.
Use
Land use.
- What is the tract used for, and which zoning applies? provenance
- Is it protected? provenance
Records Surveys and census.
Records use tracts.
Survey
Survey tracts.
Survey
Survey tracts.
- How is the tract described in survey or cadastral records? provenance
- How can boundaries be checked? action
Census
Census tracts.
Census
Census tracts.
- Which census tract covers this address, and what data is published for it? provenance
- How are tracts defined? definition
Limits Disputes and advice.
Advice limits.
Dispute
Boundary disputes.
Dispute
Boundary disputes.
- Is there a boundary or ownership dispute over the tract? boundary
- Where can a surveyor or lawyer be found? action
Access
Access rights.
Access
Access rights.
- Is there public access to this tract of land? provenance
- Which rules apply to visitors? provenance
Senses Disambiguation.
Tract has many senses.
Anatomy
Body tracts.
Anatomy
Anatomical sense.
- Is a digestive, respiratory or nerve tract meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Religious
Pamphlets.
Religious
Pamphlet sense.
- Is a tract meant as a short religious or political pamphlet? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should census tracts be a separate entry?
- How should land registers be linked?
- How should other senses be split off?