New Way to Set BMs

@norman-oklahoma

For funding, perhaps a grant from feds after the infrastructure bill goes through?

@james-fleming

Sure, but why?

@tim-v-pls

There are gobs of alternative uses for any funds that the city might get from the feds. If I could justify it as necessary for a wetland preservation project, low income housing, or global warming mitigation, I could get the funds easy enough. No joke. I figure that is actually how it will eventually happen - tagged onto some larger project.?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma Control to tie exterior and interior scan data together to build a 3D model as a design base for this project

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@james-fleming

Impressive.

@norman-oklahoma

We're currently doing a 60+ mile geodetic levelling project in Idaho, to NGS first-order, class II specs. Driving deep rods for primary marks using NGS standards. A colleague and myself had to get together and pull together all the PACS/SACS setting checklists we used on aero projects, because we hadn't done it in several years. I am jealous that I am stuck in the office over here in WA...he got to make a couple of field trips.

It's actually a state DOT project, although I am guessing federal funding is involved. As infrastructure gets upgraded, they want to have a solid network of BMs to come off of. Lots of old bridges getting replaced in the near future.

@norman-oklahoma

that billion+ dollar expansion over the berm could've kicked some money in... except, you know...

it's not in the city limits.

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ ?ÿGee Willikers, $400. I just use an $8 masonry bit and a $28 hole saw.

@oldpacer

If you were installing 16 miles worth of 3 1/2" diameter benchmarks I think that you would find the $400 to be a good investment.?ÿ?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma

Good tools seem very overpriced until you use them. Then they seem cheap, and the cheap tools seem expensive wastes of money.

@james-fleming

Looks like a train station.

@norman-oklahoma

We are connecting two vertical control networks together.

@tim-v-pls

I'm not sure that any of the current council members were old enough to vote when that BS went down.

@field-dog

Why?

@mark-mayer

I may be using the wrong lexicon. We have one county-wide vertical control network. The purpose of this project is to connect two level runs. We need NAVD 88 BMs along U.S. 192 (Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway) and other roads.

@field-dog

ƒ?Irlo Bronson Memorial Highwayƒ? You couldnƒ??t have picked a worse place. I pity the crew(s) on that job. ?????ÿ

@flga-2-2

I had never heard of the guy before today.?ÿ Quite the visionary.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-07-19-9807190376-story.html

@holy-cow

If you were interested in that you may enjoy this also. Developers have been trying to squirm land from this bunch for years. ?????ÿ

https://www.deseretranches.com/Home/LegacyHistory

@flga-2-2

Good story! I live very close to the Deseret Ranches. I heard they were surveyed not too long ago in preparation for a huge development of tens of thousands of houses beginning construction in 2040. We hear infrequent stories of making anything east of Chuluota Rd. (I think) into a new township because Orlando is just too darned big.?ÿ

@flga-2-2

I've got my facts wrong. I live very close to the Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, not the Deseret Ranches. Every time I smell something burning outside my wife tells me it's a controlled burn at the Deseret Ranches; guess the wind carries the smoke quite some distance. There's Mormon land all around us. That's probably why my wife, and maybe the news media, gets confused.

Here's an article about the future huge development that I wrote about.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/205219-new-24000-acre-development-announced-mormon-lands-orange-osceola-counties/