Digital data, without any further information, has no sense of its origin. If you get a computer file from someone, ask yourself these questions:

• If I have a question about the quality of the data, are there original documents I can go back to to see how the data were captured?
• If I make a change on my side, is there a process for getting the changes back to the originators of the data? How is this documented?
• Is my product considered a standard in the industry?

WhiteStar’s Public Land Survey is digitized from USGS 1:24,000 series topographic maps using a highly accurate spatial averaging digitizing technique, which captures corner boundaries to +/- 40 foot accuracies. The Wyoming resurveys are included and Carter townships are used for Kentucky and Tennessee.