Neat stuff Gene! Over the years I have seen/recovered/used quite a few Triangulation Networks ranging from the 1880s up into the early 1900s (all mini...

84?ø F. here today...TOO frick'ing HOT for my liking, but I don't complain (much) until we hit high 80s/90s (when I complain a LOT). I don't see any r...

Not really, a LOT of the project is UPHILL from there (up to about 9400+). ????

Working "solo" (or very near so) in REMOTE areas for most of my life, I have [pretty much] always carried a firearm. The choice of firearm varies with...

Here are the OPUS results on a Control Point that we set last year. Distance to the CORS were 96.2 miles Westerly, 84.9 miles Northerly, and 78.6 mile...

Did all three OPUS solutions use the SAME three CORS? If not, resubmit and make sure that they do! Are all three CORS "good" ones? Some of the CORS co...

Just because you are using GPS, DOES NOT mean you have to use State Plane, or any other canned projection that doesn't "fit" what you need to do on th...

I know NOTHING about EXCELL (or any other such program, I never had any use for them), but wouldn't a negative Longitude (North America for example) b...

Howdy Shelby, I don't have much to add. I have been "playing around" with NCAT a bit lately, and as with most "models" results vary somewhat. In virtu...

I'm all for "going metric," in fact I had hoped that we were going to do that in 1986 when NAD83 came out. I will REALLY get on board when my pint of ...

RIGHT ON Gene!

My feelings exactly, the USC&GS/NGS has been using meters for a long time, and NAD83 was originally going to be a metric system. I don't see any v...

I dunno boys, I see this as another "fix'n something that ain't broke." I'll bet even money that in the short term (next decade or so), it will CAUSE ...