Martin,
Surveyors have embraced the term Localization over Positioning. These things happen. It makes a certain amount of sense, really. Richard "Sinc" Sincovec used to refer to points converted from Grid to Ground, but before "truncating", as Localized Coordinates. After truncating (translating, actually), he called them Project Coordinates.
Dave
:gammon:
The dangerous part is good residuals may mask a defect in the assumed grid coordinates.
My posting is somewhat belated and others have many good things to say about "localization." My comments are somewhat abstract and more theoretical but, I believe, can be very useful. See link on my web site.
Yes the joys of surveying in an area under the elevation of 100'.:-D
Leon, that is about right, LOL
SHG
Thanks, guys, for all the explanations. In short, i was misunderstanding what was meant by "localization". I thought it meant position estimation via multilateration when it really means transformation estimation from local to regional/global coordinate systems (although the former is a special case of the latter). Not being a GPS user, i somehow missed the widespread adoption of the term.
