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  1. I have one to contribute this year. Completely unexpected. LG0282 - Chiseled Cross Filley, located in SE Nebraska. On a small dirt road that used to be a more important thoroughfare than it is now.. Carved is 'US', 'BM', and the X above the BM. There's something carved at a right-angle to the 'US BM' above the X, but I couldn't make it out. CS, maybe? Dunno.
  2. I doubt it. ArcGIS hasn't had a street-view option. Likely won't either, since Streetview isn't necessarily directly GIS-related.
  3. Anything against a building is a no on GPS, since the building is blocking at least 25% of the horizon.
  4. It's good you haven't tried yet, since USGS doesn't accept recovery reports anymore (and never did electronically except for email), and NGS is the one that maintains the survey marks today. NGS also has some basic rules - (1) Keep it professional. No personal details, no amusing stories. If you recovered it, and do not need to update any description or directions, leave the description blank. (2) If the status has not changed, or details/directions have not changed from a report made less than a year ago, do not submit another recovery. Only submit if: (1) The previous recovery is more than a year old, or description, status, or directions have changed. (3) Pictures need to be named following their guidelines, and need to be marked in the image how they say here: https://geodesy.noaa.gov/web/surveys/photo_submissions/
  5. Essentially, it's using Web Archive's last scraped (backed-up) data of the page. By going here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221208090238/https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=[PID] Replace [PID] with the PID. (Which you can get ANYWHERE, not just Scardycat's site - Google Earth, my android app, NGS site). Note that depending on how often Archive scanned the page, things posted near the time of takedown could have been missed. Note that some images are still viewable - only the ones that were moved to AWS storage are still viewable.
  6. I love that view, that landscape. Nice shot.
  7. Yeah. I've checked - I've had recoveries post that I made AFTER November, but there seems to be a batch of them that were missed or not entered. I sent an email, and hadn't heard anything back.
  8. Hm. Good point. I already knew the west part (The carsonite'd mark is on the east side, pretty much in the location the scaled mark's coordinates put it. However, the description says the scaled mark is on the other side of the tracks. And being north - that at least narrows down my search by half..)
  9. Also - since I'm not living there yet - the builder is just starting to break ground - I likely won't have too much time there until I've moved in. So, hopefully, a year from now I will have some good news.
  10. Haven't been able to do any more on-site measuring/plotting of distances yet. However - Since this is along an active rail-line, I need to be careful. BUT - Neither station mentions the other, and neither station shares any of the same witness object distances. At the moment, the missing mark refers to a milepost marker - my first job when I get out there (and have time) next will be to measure from that and get a better idea of where it should be. It's location is scaled, so I know ROUGHLY where it should have been. It's possible that the scaled coords are more off than I was initially hoping. Sadly, while I will try using my metal detector once I have the area narrowed down, it will be difficult - railroad - lots of metal. And steam engines ran along this line, so aside from spikes, tie plates and anchors, there's slag everywhere. It will be difficult.
  11. Most of us are still around, if quiet. I was never a social person to begin with - which is why I often BM hunt alone. But I always enjoyed chatting here with ya'll. I still go out hunting / surveying a lot, usually a mix of easy drive-bys, and then ones that need a little bit of work.
  12. Seeing as how they're (going to be) a short distance from my new house.. I will get to the bottom of it. Eventually. :D
  13. Yes, and it leads to a little bit more of a mystery... Went out when I could, and started digging around. I did, in fact, find the station that the carsonite post was for! .. But it was NOT for the station that I had expected - it's for an Azimuth mark for a triangulation station, a 3/4 mile away at the top of a mesa. Station has not been recovered since 1958, so the carsonite post is newer than that. Neither the station that is destroyed there, or the description of the AZ mark make references to each other. I have plans on getting the station on the mesa - I need to talk to the ranch owner first. And will need to get a metal detector, and start sweeping the general area for possible hits.
  14. One of the top-listed threads in the forums -
  15. Okay, that rocks. Literally. Gorgeous pic.
  16. All the April updates are loaded into my database, and I just checked - while stations are getting updates, none of mine from fall last year have showed up. None from January either. If nothing shows up in May, I will ping them.
  17. Considering this one borders my (new) property, and I always enjoy finding previously not-found stations, this will be a nice discovery, if I can nail it down!
  18. Interesting, thanks. So it's unlikely (based on that info, PLUS the condition that the existing post is in), that it's over 50 years old. I'll have to bring a shovel out there and try and find that station, and then see how to 'undestroy' it. Heh.
  19. Have a little bit of a mystery.. Near my property, I have a station that was marked as destroyed in 1970. However, there is an orange carsonite post, with NGS/NOAA decal on it near where the station should be. I have not gone out to start looking for the mark, but am curious when these carsonite posts were first used. Did someone go out after 1970, find the mark and erect a post? And then not update the datasheet? (The original desc in the 30's did not mention a witness post, of any kind.)
  20. Just checked some of my reports from November, and yeah, none of them have shown up. Granted, this isn't new, this has happened in the past where updates were delayed for a long time.. But that was a while ago.
  21. I'm sure I have some, but admittedly I don't think any are good enough to even be considered. (And, at the moment, mine are all packed up. I'm heading back out west this weekend!)
  22. Dave, was fantastic meeting you and learning (a lot) from you and George (bless his soul). Hope to see you around the DC area - while I'm still here.
  23. My last trip over the pond was in 2011, my (now ex-) wife and I traveled central and northern Wales, and I went out of my way to find a few of these trig marks. That'd darn awesome you got one on your house.
  24. That's literally a 45 min drive for me. And I haven't recovered it. Will do so soon.
  25. Was thinking about Dave when I read this. Last I heard, he's still local to my area here, I I will often see his recoveries - post-retirement - in stations I'm looking for.
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