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Much more information is available at http://panocea.us/gravitys-increasing-gravitas
Part One
So what does gravity have to do with land surveying? The answer to that question as well as a brief overview of the historical development of gravity's measurement over the past 450 years is discussed in Part One of Gravity's Increasing Gravitas.
Collectively, both parts one and two are intended to underscore the singular importance of gravity in making accurate determinations of orthometric heights and to provide an educational outreach for the advancement of the coming geometric datum and height modernization presently slated for the year 2022 by NGS.
Part Two
Part Two of Gravity's Increasing Gravitas focuses on the gravity surveys conducted in the United States by the Coast & Geodetic Survey and the National Geodetic Survey with particular emphasis on the current airborne gravity surveys underway by NGS and its GRAV-D program.
And be sure to also check out the other illustrations in the Geoid Gallery!
At first scan, this article looks very interesting, informative, and well researched. You've done a lot of work laying it out. I plan to read it more carefully.
Your list of arguments with the publishers is not surprising. While I don't have much experience myself, I am interested in getting something published someday. My impression is that editors almost always insist on more control than you are willing to give them. They have standard ways of working and don't want to change their routine. They want to maintain consistency of their content and format. They may need to reduce the amount of illustration and sidebars to fit their page count. They need to control their schedule and can't have it dictated to them. It's too bad this article couldn't be shaped to suit them.
GOOD article!!!!
Timely and informative...
Loyal
Excellent article! Graphics are incredible. Your "pictures" are worth many more than 10,000 words.
Thanks for sharing your hard work.
JBS
Excellent work Kelly! For those who haven't looked yet, be sure to check out the Geoid Gallery.
Howdy,
I enjoyed your article and found the graphics to be excellent.
Cheers,
DMM
Thank you all very much for looking at the article and the geoid gallery illustrations and thank you very much for all of the very nice words.
And thanks Gavin for putting in a plug for the article to possibly get inked. Regardless as to whether PSM (or any other trade magazine) is interested in running it, the OPEN TO ALL copyright notice remains available:
The contents of the panocea.us website are copyright protected; V. Kelly Bellis, all rights reserved.
Permission is hereby granted (and encouraged!) to freely copy and distribute the illustrations contained in the Geoid Gallery and the two-part article entitled "Gravity's Increasing Gravitas" in any form or media so long as 1) you do not charge for any content and that 2) any distributed content include this copyright notice. Charging a reasonable fee for copy expenses is allowed.
Bill93, by all means, write the article and if you want it to get ink, carefully review the conditions for submissions of the targeted publication. Some publishers spell things out clearly and in detail while others leave you in the dark. Similarly, some publishers will have hierarchical structures in their organization that may be leave the editor's hands tied when it comes to decisions about artwork. I think you'll find generally, all they are interested in getting from you a text document and some photos for them to arrange into their "look".
For example, the last time I bothered with any of this ("Intellectual Property - An Estate of the mind" POB April 2001, V26, No.7), they had reduced my illustration to the size of a postage stamp!
This current round was written and illustrated for surveyors to help bring awareness of GRAV-D and moreover NGS's realization of the country's next height system - and certainly was not illustrated for the publishers to mess up the graphics!
Kind regards,
Kelly
