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(@mightymoe)
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It appears that because of a number of different control surveys done on a large facilities site there are differences vertically of about .3'.

There are a whole bunch of different horizontal systems on site including coordinates from another state, horizontal is pretty easy to deal with, but, the .3' vertical is causing all kinds of issues; can anyone say OPUS?

This looks like the same .3' that showed up about a decade ago with a new OPUS/GEOID model scheme.

Mixing and matching elevations is a bad idea.

 
Posted : June 12, 2017 9:41 am
(@bill93)
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I suppose they recorded little or no metadata on the old control? You should be able to convert between geoid models if you know which ones the elevations are from.

 
Posted : June 12, 2017 10:15 am
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Time to bust out with a level?

 
Posted : June 12, 2017 11:13 am
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Lee D, post: 432196, member: 7971 wrote: Time to bust out with a level?

Yeah, waaaayyyyy past time for that, there never, never, never should have ever, ever been any GPS elevations on this site.

 
Posted : June 12, 2017 11:52 am