Mark Silver, post: 410796, member: 1087 wrote: News Flash!
From the Huffington Post:[INDENT]ÛÏNGS Officials told they are not allowed to publicly talk about Plate Shift. America is the center of the earth and as such all coordinates will be fixed with respect to the Capital Dome in Washington. All references to new reference frames is being removed from NGS websites and employees told to not to discuss modernization plans. By presidential decree NAD83 and WGS84 are defined to be identical and there is no need for further coordinate enhancements."[/INDENT]
On September 28, 1850, the United States adopted the Washington Meridian (through the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Observatory&apos ;">United States Naval Observatory in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.&apos ;">Washington, D.C.) for more accurate astronomical and domestic use.
DDSM:clink:
Shawn Billings, post: 410780, member: 6521 wrote: I'd have probably gone with NAD22 and NAVD22, but that's just me.
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