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).
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.