[Roark66]

It's an interesting technical challenge. I wonder if there is any "tangible" benefit by moving your land these few meters and spending $4600 on a surveyor to do it considering it's a woodland property. One immediate benefit I can see is that it now borders a road and previously it didn't. That's prety useful.

What are the laws in that place? Could you, let's say, not do any surveying, build a fence, and then have a new neighbour show up 25 years later with a survey and ask you to move it?

Here, we have this law that if you occupy some piece of land for 20 years (with no "malice", if it can be proved you knew it wasn't your land the amount of time is 30 years). After that time it essentially "becomes yours". The neighbour had no fence, but I imagine he could argue his camper being there for the required amount of time fulfills the requirement and then I imagine the boundary would get redrawn.

What is the authoritative thing that defines the boundary in absence of pins/markers?

[bendauphinee]

For me, the tangible benefit is in actually knowing where my land is. I have some things I want to do on it, and I'd rather find out before starting, rather than in the middle of building.

The authoritative thing is the boundary descriptions for your purchase (See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829732 for what that looks like)

[Freak_NL]

How did the neighbour take the new line in the end? Did he 'lose' land to you or did the boundary between your parcels move outward of his (presumed) land?

[bendauphinee]

I had a conversation based on the GeoNB borders, and we had basically come to the conclusion that neither of us were going to be nasty about things. He was still annoyed to find out the realtor told him wrong, and he wasn’t in the middle of his property like he wanted.

With the official survey, his camper pad became officially on his land, instead of maybe on mine, so we’re both happy about not dealing with that.