[Talk-us-massachusetts] Fwd: GPS on Benchmarks Campaign from the National Geodetic Survey

Wed Apr 14 17:24:30 UTC 2021

On Apr 14, 2021, at 1:06 PM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu> wrote:

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.

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:

	https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a61976366d1f4a19b3bc8a2d5a0d5498 <https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a61976366d1f4a19b3bc8a2d5a0d5498>

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.

— Andy

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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.
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