💧🌏 Greg CocksApr 17, 2024
As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
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"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
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A recent post with some more tech details:
https://techhub.social/@GregCocks/112244097936932307
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Attached: 4 images The NSRS Horizontal Datums Will Be Tectonic Plate Based! | Changes To The Vertical Datums -- https://geodesy.noaa.gov/datums/newdatums/index.shtml <-- details of the new NSRS datums, etc at the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) website -- #GIS #spatial #mapping #coordinates #coordinatesystems #NationalGeodeticSurvey #NGS #datums #verticaldatum #NorthAmerica #horizontaldatum #NSRS #geology #NorthAmericanPlate #CaribbeanPlate #tectonics #platetectonics #movement #GPS #GNSS #geomorphometry #NAVD88 #NAD83 #accuracy #precision

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