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NGS webinar 22 June 2023 transitioning to new NSR
Posted by geeoddmike on June 8, 2023 at 6:47 pmhttps://geodesy.noaa.gov/web/science_edu/webinar_series/benefits-challenges-modernized-nsrs.shtml
Webinar on transitioning to the new NSRS. 22 June 2023 from 1400 to 1530 ET.
OleManRiver replied 1 year, 2 months ago 9 Members · 24 Replies -
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Thanks for posting this.
Either you are quicker than Erika Little sending me an email with this info, or…?
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I wish NGS would post these notices to this (and other) sites. While I have posted them in the past, due to travel and other issues, I have not done so recently.
Perhaps someone else might do so in the future.
As for the timing, I was looking for something on the NGS site and happened upon this information. I have not received the email from Erika Little regarding this webinar.
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@geeoddmike i received mine through email yesterday afternoon. Fyi. I signed up years ago. But i have no idea how there emails do I assume some batch file or something in the background. I passed on your idea about posting to this site. I get a glimpse sometimes on linked in but don’t know if its someone else or ngs doing it. I hardly look at linked in. I don’t do FB so have no idea if they post on that. My morning routine is to boot computer and do a little quick look on ngs site before diving into emails etc.
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https://geodesy.noaa.gov/INFO/subscribe.shtml
This link will take you to NGS to subscribe for emails FYI.
emails for News
for webinars
for training
for GPS on BM
Once you sign up you will begin receiving the emails for whatever categories you choose. So all those emails come from the subscribers thing. Hope this helps.
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https://geodesy.noaa.gov/INFO/subscribe.shtml
This link will take you to NGS to subscribe for emails FYI.
emails for News
for webinars
for training
for GPS on BM
Once you sign up you will begin receiving the emails for whatever categories you choose. So all those emails come from the subscribers thing. Hope this helps.
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https://geodesy.noaa.gov/INFO/subscribe.shtml
This link will take you to NGS to subscribe for emails FYI.
emails for News
for webinars
for training
for GPS on BM
Once you sign up you will begin receiving the emails for whatever categories you choose. So all those emails come from the subscribers thing. Hope this helps.
Make sure you sign up for the different categories of your interest. One doesn’t get you all FYI.
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@brad-ott well she doesn’t send those out she helps but she does send emails for training when someone signs up. Hey I appreciate her very much as well. She has a lot she does and she can’t always do what she wants as government has rules. But she always tries and works hard. I am very lucky man. I went to FIG and thats the first time in years i have got to see her present. She has come along way. I just wish i had half her intelligence. Lol. She keeps me going for sure. Maybe i can get her into surveying when she retires lol . I will ponder that as she already helps with farm and all.
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A good webinar. If you missed it you can catch the recorded version in a week or so.
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We’ve had the discussion here about grid is ground. First point on screen shot slide
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We’ve had the discussion here about grid is ground.
Oregon has had a system of Low Distortion Projections incorporated in state statutes for a decade, but I still can’t get my GIS department to output data in that system – apparently ESRI doesn’t support it. Nor will Nearmap. I can get output in Botswana Central Zone, but not ORCS.
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I had never heard of the AAGS before. I’m interested in their training materials and certificate program. Will look into that further.
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People with GIS backgrounds were asking about PLS licensure for these control matters. They fail to understand that licensure exists because of boundary surveying. Conversely, this may be why some LS’s have trouble dealing with control issues.
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I had never heard of the AAGS before. I’m interested in their training materials and certificate program. Will look into that further.
As Brian Fischer stated, AAGS is in the process of putting together the exam materials for the Geodetic Certification program. They are partnering with the NSPS, who will administer the examination. The goal is to have it stood up by the end of 2023.
I am not surprised that you have never heard of AAGS even though they have been around for decades. I hadn’t either when I was contacted a couple of years ago and asked to get involved on the Board of Directors. I am currently the President-Elect and was instrumental in recruiting Brian to run for the Board of Directors last year. We are both State Geodetic Coordinators (Arizona and California) and professional land surveyors. Brian has brought a lot of energy, experience, knowledge, and vision to AAGS and is really helping to push the effort to get the Geodetic Certification in place.
I agree that it was a very well done webinar with much diversity in the panel members to more effectively represent the geospatial data user community and industry, rather than just an NGS perspective.
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I had to jump off only a short time into the webinar, but I am looking forward to watching the recording.
AAGS is in the process of putting together the exam materials for the Geodetic Certification program. They are partnering with the NSPS, who will administer the examination. The goal is to have it stood up by the end of 2023.
People with GIS backgrounds were asking about PLS licensure for these control matters. They fail to understand that licensure exists because of boundary surveying. Conversely, this may be why some LS’s have trouble dealing with control issues.
Considering the implications of poorly performed geodetic control surveys and the potential to harm the public, and the fact that folks are looking to licensed surveyors for answers on the subject, I’m looking forward to the certification rollout.
With the NSPS being involved, I wonder whether this is a sign of possible changes down the road i.e., official endorsements for professionals?
“…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” -Neil Postman -
It was a great presentation and discussion. I thought the panelists did a very great job. The AAGS certification I am looking forward to as well.
I think a opportunity is lurking for Surveyors. If a person steps to the side and looks outside the box while still understanding where we came from to where we are heading in terms of technology and datums. I believe we all in the surveying and geospatial realm should buckle down and lead from the efforts lets not waste the opportunity but own it become the Subject Matter Experts this was not done with GIS and I honestly believe that surveyor’s could have done a great job with that We must understand that autonomous driving is coming so that will effect roads design and layout in the future Remember now its not so much the GPS position as we look at our navigation on phones that’s wrong but the underlying maps datums thats not exactly correct. I believe we will see more requirements on roads like what is required on airports in a way Someone will have to educate the engineers that design them the contractor that builds them so we are all on the same datum reference frame coordinate system. How will this effect boundary surveys I believe it will be both we must follow history and the footsteps but we will also be positioning better and on a datum that relates directly to the same as the roads row over time Education and training education both formal and informal. I might be gone by the time this all comes to fruition but the ground work has been laid out years many years ago. Geo databases will become as common as a file cabinet system publishing more than one set of coordinates for a project will as well. Meta Data every state should already be looking at this and preparing time epoch will be a must to track and keep up with.
I am doing a job now that requires two different datums and coordinate system to be published on all corners and control. Energy projects will provide a lot of opportunities for re doing all the old control and location work is coming as well. And hopefully no more scaling to ground grid coordinates allowed without stating where is the origin and factor from and ellipsoid elevation or elevations used to determine that
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