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Setting up a survey job in NAD83(HARN)
I use Trimble gear, specifically a TSC5 and R12 and would like to know how to properly set up a job in the data collector to use a state plane NAD83(HARN) coordinate system. A lot of the monuments where our survey jobs are, are in 83(HARN). We always set a base for our jobs and don’t use the VRS network. We create our jobs using Trimble Sync Manager on a computer, and it does have the option in there to select a NAD83(HARN) coordinate system, but the couple of times I did that, when we set up the base and went to Trimble Access on the data collector, we were getting errors saying missing coordinate system or something similar. So we switched the coordinate system in the properties of the job to 83(11) and it was fine.
I am told that every job should be set up in NAD83(11), then we must do a site calibration when on site with multiple monuments. Is this correct? Is there not a file or something that I’m missing that I can load into Trimble Access to use NAD83(HARN) and just set the job up in HARN?
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