The future of OPUS

I attended the recent NSPS/MAPPS meeting where Dr. Dru Smith from NGS talked about all things NGS. He specifically noted that NGS intends that OPUS, in it's various forms will be one of the primary ways in which the new reference frame (2022) will be accessed by the public. He subsequent personal discussions with me he reiterated that process.

I just spoke with Mark Armstrong NOAA NW region rep. OPUS is not going away. There is plans to the replace the OPUS engine that runs OPUS RS with a better version but is at some distant point in time.

I don't know if it's rumor or fact, but I do know that I've heard it for a couple of years now and it always starts "I heard from a guy at Trimble...."

My take away from the 2015 NGS Geospatial Summit was that supporting OPUS is an integral part of the elimination of NGS support for conventional geodetic passive monumentation (and that OPUS Projects is probably the future of bluebooking).

bridger48, post: 371457, member: 6251 wrote: Just received an email from an attendee of a Trimble Access Class that stating OPUS will be ending. Rumor or fact?

bridger

That person wasn't by chance a gps salesman, was he?

I hope not. I am scheduled to take the OPUS PM training tomorrow. If so, I am sure that Bentley or AutoDesk would gladly run it as a subscription.

C Billingsley, post: 371478, member: 1965 wrote: That person wasn't by chance a gps salesman, was he?

Probably a software salesman.

I think OPUS Projects is the bees knees. I hope it doesn't go away.

It reminds me of the story a surveyor told when he got his first TS and quoted to the newspaper that there was no more need to cut brush.
:-X

NO, the National Geodetic Survey has no plans whatsoever to end OPUS.

Modern users of NAD 83 and NAVD 88 rely on access via GPS, which is what CORS and OPUS provide. The planned replacements for NAD 83 and NAVD 88 will be even more reliant on access via GPS, as will maintenance of the database of passive marks.