[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.