I was looking through some pictures on an old thumb drive and came across these. They are about 4 or 5 years old and are from when I was in Florida. The Power Squadron couldn't find it, but that's not really any surprise. The point is on the roof of a high rise condo building. We had to be escorted by their security officer. I think it was a really cool idea for the roofers to build the wooden boxes around the points when they redid the roof. We found the point and the 2 azimuth marks that were also on the roof.
I hope you didn't step on those bipod feet 😉
Did you post recovery notes on the NGS Website? That is something I always like to do with it has not been recovered lately.
The company I was doing the GPS work for did and submitted pictures, but it was never updated.
that's really cool.
>point and the 2 azimuth marks that were also on the roof
The terminology on the data sheet would be "station and 2 reference marks". The azimuth mark, if there is one, would be 1/4 mile to a couple miles away.
And could someone educate me? I've never heard the term "point sphere". Does that refer to the station disk?
When I said point sphere, I probably should have typed it as point "Sphere". It is the station name. I apologize for the confusion it was before the morning caffeine.
NGS Point "Sphere"
Duh! I should have realized that what I could see of the stamping matched up with "SPHERE"
Thanks.
Data sheet AC3440 "SPHERE"
I'm surprised the NGS would consider the roof of a high rise stable enough to place a control station on. A three story parking garage, maybe, but a curtain wall residential high rise?
When I was working in Florida we used a point on top of the Vertical Assembly building at KSC regularly.
Downtown Fort Worth has one set on what was then known as the Fair Building in 1935. It was last recovered by a geocacher in 2009. I had been meaning to do a recovery but never got around to getting permission.
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=CS2998