Did the NGS shutdown affect anyone's CORS data today??ÿ In Michigan, as far as I know, we only have one CORS (MIDI) that is affected.
rut roo......I was wondering why my opus results were not coming back today
23-Jan-2018 at 01:50 UTC and NGS is still shut down, I thought the government was back up and running, this kind of BS should be shoved sideways up governments collective private places, it wasn't costing taxpayers anymore to have data displayed vs a splash screen saying we are shut down. I guess I am dead in the water till some IT person turns the NGS servers back on. Pretty sure CORS are still running, BUT not going to share with rest of us because they are shut down. I sure hope congress gets shutdown for a couple days of pay this paycheck!
SHG
Give your representative a call and tell him how you feel. Mine has been more than sympathetic and voted yes to restart the government.
Notice how the website operated okay without a problem all weekend until a paid essential showed up on Monday to shut down the website.
This crap is inexcusable.
I monitored OPUS throughout the weekend and agree that it didn't get shut down until an "Essential" employee purposely did so on Monday morning.?ÿ As far as I know, these sites operate just fine during government holidays when no one is there, so there is no reason to shut down websites that can operate smoothly on their own.?ÿ This is something that needs to be addressed because the public can be needlessly put in a tough position who still need to do their daily work.
Head smacking moment; yesterday I should have tried RTX, I waited till this morning to run a base file. It worked fine, but I'm not sure if it would have yesterday with CORS down. Did anyone try one of the private processing services yesterday?
?ÿAs far as I know, these sites operate just fine during government holidays when no one is there
I believe the point isn't that the NGS (and other agencies) need someone there physically to run the websites, it's that the way the funding laws are written they are forbidden from spending funds, or performing any activities that can incur debt ,while there is no congressional authorized spending.?ÿ
The NGS employees are only doing what congress has told them to do...shut down anything unessential that involves spending funds or that could break down and incur costs to repair while there is no authorized spending.
What you should really be concerned with is how long you're going to keep being able to receive these types of services; NGS falls under the National Ocean Service (NOS) and their budget was cut 26% in 2018.?ÿ I wouldn't be surprised if, for example last years digital leveling class at Corbin was the last one.?ÿ
I'm more cynical. I think they figure out what service the public will miss most and they shut that down. You can bet their office is full of essentials sitting at their computers reading and sending emails.
I'm more cynical. I think they figure out what service the public will miss most and they shut that down. You can bet their office is full of essentials sitting at their computers reading and sending emails.
You give them too much credit..........checking Facebook, watching cat videos, porn.............We probably don't want to know how little real work gets done on any given day.