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

[Andy Anderson]

There are many, many more than those that appear on this map. This shows the ones that have been found by citizens contributing their observations. So, yes, they are hoping people will contribute many more observations.

The implication is that they don’t have good information about the location of most of these.

— Andy

> On Apr 15, 2021, at 9:25 AM, Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/15/2021 9:01 AM, Andy Anderson wrote:
> > On Apr 15, 2021, at 8:55 AM, Marc Sevigny <marc.sevigny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a list of benchmarks that we can use to search out markers in our area?
> >
> > Apparently not. The map I linked has collected information about their locations:
> > https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a61976366d1f4a19b3bc8a2d5a0d5498
> 
> I'm a bit confused as to what this is asking people to do, then, if the map is just markers that have already been found. Is this just saying that if we should happen to stumble upon something that looks like a US Survey Marker while we're out and about somewhere, we should report it so that someone can properly measure it and add it to the map?
> 
> I feel like I'm missing something. (Wouldn't be the first nor last time, I'm sure.)
> 
> --
> Peter
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