Village Map Joiner
Village Map Joiner solves one specific problem in Indian land records: a village map is not published as a map. It is published as a set of adjacent FMB sheets, each covering a block of survey numbers, and anyone who needs to see a whole village — or a single boundary that happens to run across two sheets — has to join them by hand. Village Map Joiner does the join, keeps the survey numbers readable, and explains the record while it is at it.
The actual capabilities.
Joins adjacent survey sheets
Bring the FMB sheets for a village and the editor aligns them along their shared edges into one continuous map, so a plot straddling a sheet boundary finally reads as one plot instead of two halves on two pages.
Keeps the survey numbers legible
The join preserves the survey and subdivision numbers printed on each sheet. A combined map you cannot read the numbers off is not a combined map, it is a picture.
Combined map on request
Where the sheets are hard to source, you can order the combined village map instead of assembling it yourself. Requests are organised by district and, in Tamil Nadu, down to the taluk.
Explains what is on the sketch
A glossary in plain English and Tamil for the terms that stop people cold on their first FMB: FMB itself, F-line and G-line, chitta, adangal, patta, punjai and nanjai, natham, poramboke, A-register, TSLR, subdivision number, the measurement ladder, firka surveyor, VAO and tahsildar.
Guides for the records themselves
How to read an FMB sketch. What a correlation statement between old and new survey numbers is for. When an online record is enough and when you still have to walk into the taluk office. How to find a licensed surveyor.
The editor is the product. The glossary and guides are why people arrive at it.
Join your sheets into one village map.
Order the join by district and taluk.
Coverage across seven states.
Every term on the sketch, in plain language.
The lines, the ladder, the numbers.
What you can and cannot get from a browser.
Matching a number across a resurvey.
The application that gets a boundary walked.
Who is allowed to measure, and how to find them.
Tamil Nadu is covered district by district and taluk by taluk. The other six states are covered at district level.
- Tamil Nadu — all districts, by taluk
- Andhra Pradesh — by district
- Telangana — by district
- Karnataka — by district
- Kerala — by district
- Maharashtra — by district
- Assam — by district
Who reaches for it, and why.
Landowners
Seeing your own survey number in the context of the plots around it, not cropped at a sheet edge.
Buyers and their advocates
Checking a boundary and a subdivision before money moves.
Licensed surveyors
A joined base map to work from instead of taping sheets together.
Anyone in a boundary dispute
The adjacent sheets, aligned, are usually the whole argument.
Asked often enough to answer here.
What is FMB?
Field Measurement Book. The FMB sketch is the survey department's measured drawing of a survey number — its shape, its boundaries and the measurements along each side. It is the record that says where your land actually is, as distinct from the patta and chitta, which say who holds it and what kind of land it is.
What is a combined FMB sketch?
One plot's measurements shown together with the adjacent survey numbers it touches, rather than in isolation. You need it whenever a boundary is shared, which is nearly always — and it is exactly the join this product automates.
What does firka surveyor mean?
A firka is a cluster of villages grouped under a taluk for revenue administration. The firka surveyor is the surveyor responsible for that cluster, and in most states the official who attends an F-line measurement on the ground.
What is an F-line?
An application to the survey office asking for a boundary to be demarcated on the ground by an official surveyor. It is what you file when the paper record and the fence disagree.
Chitta, adangal and patta — what is the difference?
Patta records who holds the land. Chitta records the extent and classification of the holding. Adangal is the cultivation account for the year. Different registers, different offices, commonly confused, and all three sit alongside the FMB rather than replacing it.
Punjai and nanjai?
Classification of land by irrigation. Nanjai is wet land, served by an irrigation source. Punjai is dry land, dependent on rainfall. The classification appears on the chitta and affects both valuation and what you are permitted to do with the plot.
Can I get a village map with survey numbers for my village?
That is the product. Either join the sheets yourself in the editor, or request the combined map for your district and taluk and have it done for you.
Image handling and geometry in the browser, on the phones people actually own — most of this product's users arrive on mobile, on Indian networks, and the join still has to be readable. Plus a content architecture spanning seven states, two languages and several thousand district and taluk pages.
The same team takes this on for clients — see what we build, or start an enquiry.