<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Apr 14, 2021, at 1:06 PM, Andy Anderson <<a href="mailto:aanderson@amherst.edu" class="">aanderson@amherst.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="content-isolator__container"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Many of you might know where some of the Bureau of Land Management’s National Geodetic Survey markers are located and can provide them with feedback on their coordinates.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s a direct link to their map of “found” markers, not a whole lot in Massachusetts in comparison to, say, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a61976366d1f4a19b3bc8a2d5a0d5498" class="">https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a61976366d1f4a19b3bc8a2d5a0d5498</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know where a few are off the top of my head, so I’ll add them when I get a chance to revisit those sites.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">---------- Forwarded message ---------</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">
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Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:22 AM<br class="">
Subject: GPSonBM Update: April 2021<br class="">
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April is Global Citizen Science Month. We invite you to celebrate with NGS by GPS’ing a benchmark, submitting a
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In the past, when NGS was part of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, we had what we affectionately call the “roving bands of surveyors” who literally walked across the country, East to West, North to South, moving their families in caravans along the survey
routes. The vast amounts of data they collected was used to create the geodetic datums we use today, NAVD 88 and NAD 83. Today, we are modernizing the National Spatial Reference System, but we don’t have the roving bands of surveyors anymore. Luckily, GPS
technology has become so accurate, accessible, and affordable, and the Internet has made data sharing so easy, that we can now rely on a crowd-sourced data collection model to enable you to improve the local accuracy of NGS models and tools in the areas where
you use them most.</div><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;" class="">
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Remember - get your data in by the <strong class="">December 31st, 2021 cut-off date</strong> to ensure your data is used to improve the transformation tools.</div><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;" class="">
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In the March GPSonBM update, we reminded you that this is the <strong class="">last full field season to collect and submit data</strong> to be used in the initial release of the modernized National Spatial Reference System. We also challenged you to beat the data submission
record set back in 2018 at the height of the GEOID18 data collection campaign. The submissions have been counted, and YOU DID IT! A record breaking 1,649 OPUS solutions were shared in March 2021. This surge, on top of the strong increasing trend over the past
year, bodes well for the GPSonBM Transformation Tool Campaign. It also shows that NGS’ crowd-sourcing approach can be mutually beneficial and unleash the full potential of the modernized NSRS.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><h1 style="color:#1b66a0;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:20px;margin-bottom:0px" class=""></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="padding:0" align="center" valign="top" class=""><table id="m_79249231113793269gd_ab_footer" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="text-align:left;width:600px;background-color:#3a5299;padding:15px 19px 20px 20px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class=""><h3 style="text-align:center;color:#fff8f8;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px" align="center" class=""><b class=""><span class="">NOAA's National Geodetic Survey</span> </b></h3><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;" class="">
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