[Tagging] Fixed position GPS receivers

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Wed May 19 02:56:34 BST 2010


On 19 May 2010 11:48, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From wikipedia: "Surveying or land surveying is the technique and
> science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional
> position of points and the distances and angles between them. These
> points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often
> used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership or
> governmental purposes."

Exactly, these locations are used to monitor the movement of a
tectonic plate, atmospheric conditions and potentially drift of GPS
satellite locations, none of which has anything to do with "used to
establish land maps and boundaries"

> IMHO, those sites are used for surveying. Or at least they're close
> enough to not warrant introducing a new obscure tag.

We'll have to agree to disagree then, because tagging them as just
another survey marker is a reduction of information to lowest common
denominator. I would have thought you of all people would have wanted
more granular information especially when have stated in the past how
tagging the width of a way isn't good enough to map the road
accurately.




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