freebeer
hi sdoerr, thanks for joining.
Obviously a reference, starting point, or additional coörds were missing.
the problem with the direction east is that it puts it at a right angle to what constable added, towards the mapped driveway (tagged residential, looks like driveway in leaf-off DigitalGlobe Standard).  South, then further 57° clockwise?  I can live with that.
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In the radio forum I follow, directions are published in degrees clockwise from north, so I'd eyeball constable's addition as around 220, give or take.  I've no clue what is done in surveying, or in different countries.
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You also reminded me that I forgot, the US still measures in units that use the same common abbreviations I interpret as min'sec", plus many kezboards don't make it easy to typo 57E as 57°E.
57°18′05″N (this browser font doesn't show the distinct difference as does my commandline terminal font, which also would clearly show me  Tlafore and not TIafore. end my off-topic gripe)
Also 57N is well out too.  And would 18'05" as distance imperial be used, or 18'5"?
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40.00' must be in an out-of-band mail; I did receive an OSM message where Constable was said to have received the vital statistics as a survey; important was for me to learn there may be more houses added later, in which case 41 feet is not even the length of constable's line before taking a bend (I get 25,7 metres; then 201,4m after the bend to the drawn end (v1.1 in my editor cache).
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But as i clearly don't know what I\m talking about, I'll shut up.
Best willl be if this senseless post crosses wires with something useful, allowing me to kick myself for again exposing my stupidity to the whole world.
OSM! Some of us don't know what we're doing, but we're damn enthusiastic about our ignorance!™

