The whole of the UK system, the Ordnance Survey Active Network, went off at 10:17 yesterday and no sign of it coming back on. All 115 stations off network. Rather bad news for all those running with just a single receiver.
We've a large job in the middle of some Scottish forests - fortunately we always leave permanent markers and work with a local base, so our data should be recoverable in the end. Not so good for the other firm working on the same sites with just a single receiver using a virtual base.
Wow. Besides Surveyors that will impact others...Hope it doesn't last much longer and that the receivers are still logging.?ÿ
Does it have anything to do with the?ÿBrexit chaos??ÿ ??ÿ
Brexit? What Brexit - we are supposed to be non-political on this website.
Chasing around, trying to findout what is happening and I had the following back about an hour ago
"Apologies, we have an issue moving stuff up to the public website at the moment.?ÿ All stations are currently green and no data is lost, and it will eventually make its way up there. Gonna stick my neck out and say early next week? "
So the receivers are still logging - it's just that the information isn't getting out to (most?) users. It highlights the comment I made a few weeks ago regarding RTK on drones - far safer to use PPK and post process the flight than risk finding (as I said then) a couple of CORS stations go down. I'd not considered that all would be unavailable.
Flight navigation is still OK since that is using direct GPS signals for approximate location.
Does it seem like our technological age is fragile?
Keep those total stations, levels, theodolites they may come in handy someday.?ÿ
They come in handy every day.
We make more from the N3 and NA2 than the rest of the gear put together. It's not just that "They don't make them like they used to" but also "They don't know how to use them like they used to".
Electronics are wonderful until they aren't. Shame they stopped putting starting handles on cars!
I am one of the single rover CORS dependent solo guys. ?ÿI feel for yous guys over there in the UK.
Peak GNSS Complexity
Between the
- Ground Segment,
- Space Segment,
- Correction Segment: which includes the Network Server Segment and the Cellular Segment,
- Receiver Segment,
- Data Collector Segment: which includes an OS and software,
- Button Pusher Segment,
I think we have have reached Peak GNSS Complexity.
But, for the record, I am not going to return to the chain/tape days. Ever.
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@chris-mills?ÿ?ÿ
"Brexit? What Brexit - we are supposed to be non-political on this website."
I did not intend to drag politics, in your opinion, into the post. I was referring to financial matters associated with the OP.?ÿ
UK appears to be back with CORS corrections, but at the moment there are large chunks of reference data still not available between mid morning Thursday and Friday midday. Hopefully the data is still there and just hasn't been recovered.
Just what you want to make the weekend! And to top it all we had lots of un-forecast low cloud and misty patches so no flying possible on Friday.
FL/GA PLS - OK, I wasn't really having a dig at you - just that we are all fed up with the B. word,
