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The NGS Modernization news release December 2024 announcement includes this statement:
For OPUS-Shared solutions from OPUS-S: Blueprint Part 3 proposed replacing the OPUS Shared solution database with a “shareable URL”to allow users to easily share their OPUS solutions with others. However, this decision has been reversed, and a shareable URL will not be provided.
Page 57 of Blueprint Part 3 contains the reference to "shareable", which refers to an OPUS user "..sic those coordinates will be available to the public via a shareable URL".
Is OPUS Share and its various portals going away in favor of NSRS submissions only via OPUS-Projects? Am I reading this wrong?
Another way of stating this. Does this mean the OPUS share map National Geodetic Survey OPUS Share Map and a URL like this https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getDatasheet.jsp?PID=BBGQ37&ts=19322134525 will not work in the future?
A GIS system, with an attribute "OPUS_SHARE_LINK" is a vital hyperlink to our user community and is a crucial link for a user to recover, observe and if needed, re-submit via OPUS share?
I get that OPUS coordinates will not be loaded into the NGS database, and are merely ties to the NSRS, but I want clarification if static solutions and a shareable Share solution is going away. NGS has stood up fantastic rest service rest service https://services2.arcgis.com/C8EMgrsFcRFL6LrL/arcgis/rest/services/opus_solutions/FeatureServer/0 which we also use to verify coordinates in the field (when internet is available).
Posted : December 23, 2024 11:07 am
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Hey Joel, yep you read that right. OPUS Share is going away.
Not only is OPUS Share going away, but single OPUS Shared Solutions will not be carried over into the future database. This means that if there are no other redundant observations (nothing from existing PID/IDB) on a given Shared Solution, then it will not get NATRF2022 and NAPGD2022 coordinates.
Posted : January 10, 2025 1:22 pm
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Belated Thanks. See you this coming week on our V-Datum talk at the GeoSummit in Anchorage Alaska! I sure hope NGS reconsiders keeping shareable OPUS Share's alive. As a GIS guy, OPUS share on passive monumentation, at least here in AK is our saving grace to fix remote sensing projects and jobs where were using satellite positioning. cheers.
Posted : April 6, 2025 8:10 pm
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I'm left wondering if the decision to not support OPUS Share in the future is a technical one or more based on budgetary considerations.
Posted : April 6, 2025 9:20 pm
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OPUS Share will live on. NGS Newsletter, June 2025.
"OPUS-Static will function similarly to today’s tool, but it will operate with the modernized NSRS, including the support of multi-GNSS data. Additionally, the popular function of “sharing” your solution with others (colloquially called “OPUSShare”) will be retained, but with appropriate caveats that the shared solution should not be used as geodetic control. These shared solutions will be available through the geodetic mark pages of the DDS.
https://geodesy.noaa.gov/web/news/pdf/rollout-plan-remaining-nsrs-modernization-products.pdf
This makes me very happy and thanks to all of us who responded with comments to NGS to keep OPUS Share alive!. Recent attrition and cuts to NGS must have played a part in the original decision, but there has never been an easier way to bring NAD83 (2011) in the middle of Alaska National Parks and automate, on some observations, the future NSRS solutions.
Posted : July 24, 2025 8:54 am