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The easiest way is to go to the NGS web site's datasheet retrieval by load date, select August 1 through the current date, and see if your recovery shows up. If it does, then it was added sometime after July 31, and will show up in next month's statistics.

Well, June was a problem, but what I did was download the full archives at the beginning of August and merge it into my database. The full archive included everything through mid July. I didn't have any problem obtaining the updates that had been made in July, so what I have now should be everything.

I got the message this time. Thanks. I'll be posting updated statistics shortly.

The July statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were 510 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets as of August 3 was dated June 24.

It looks like part of the problem is that a massive number of updates were done on June 27, and that the retrieval page has a maximum limit that is being exceeded. Since there is no way to get just part of a day's updates there is no way to retrieve the updates, short of downloading the complete archive, which has not yet been updated for all states.

There was a problem a year or two ago with the retrieval, if the date range include one specific date. For some reason, you could retrieve everything before or after that date, but not that one date. Perhaps the same problem has occurred again. I'll try to retrieve smaller slices and see if that works.

I've been unable to retrieve last month's datasheets from the NGS site, so I have no new statistics to report. The page that used to allow me to retrieve datasheets by load date seems to be no longer working. Although the NGS has an FTP site that contains downloads, they don't update all the states at the same time, so it has become impossible to get a good snapshot of the activity over all states for a single month.

Hmm, no, apparently your note never got through to me.

The May statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were 76 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets as of June 1 was dated April 30.

The April statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were 693 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets as of May 1 was dated April 14.

I downloaded the NGS datasheets, and saw no new GEOCAC recovery logs.

The February statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were 608 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets as of March 1 was dated January 31.

I've followed this for a long time. I like they way they've been saying the problem is with the GPS receivers. Well, in a sense it is true, but it is really disingenuous. If my technology depends on being able to see a small, faint flashlight bulb 5 miles away, and someone decides to build large, stadium-sized spotlights in front of me and shine them at me, well they can argue that my equipment just isn't good enough to see the small bulb I need to see, and it's all the fault of my equipment's maker. Yes, but my equipment shouldn't have to be that good.

I just did a download for all the load dates from Feb 1 to Feb 29, 2012, and the sheets for JV1979 and JV 1980 both show up with new recovery reports. My guess is that they were updated After Feb 1 and will show up in next month's statistics. I'm sure that the same applies to anyone else who can see their reports now, but weren't able to see them earlier. It takes too much time for me to run the updates for me to want to do it more frequently than once a month. Whatever gets updated by the NGS from the 1st to the last of the month is what gets captured when I do the run. LSUFan, yes the actual form doesn't allow you to enter a year of 2012, but I don't actually use the form, I use a robot that submits the form request directly, and I can put the 2012 year in the request that the robot sends, and it works.

I'm not sure I understand your question. I use this page at the NGS's web site to pull all datasheets by load date, and I enter a full month at a time, so this past run, I entered Jan 1 through Jan 31 2012. Whatever they return is what I count. If the datasheet contains a GEOCAC recovery that it didn't contain before, it gets added to the statistics. The date of the recovery determines which year column of the statistics page gets updated.

What seems to happen is that a couple of states get a lot of updates for some reason unrelated to recovery reports, and a few GEOCAC reports get carried along for the ride. I normally pull all the datasheets that are "loaded" in the prior month, in this case from January 1 to January 31. There were about 1100 datasheets that were updated in some manner in that month, however, only 2 of them contained new GEOCAC recoveries. There majority of the datasheets were in Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington. There were a handful in Pennsylvania, Alaska, Alabama, and Arizona. Most of them weren't updated because of new recovery reports, they were updated for some other reason. Taking one example, DF6515 in Minnesota, it was updated in order to add "DYNAMIC HT" and "MODELED GRAV" to the datasheet.

The January statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were only 2 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets as of February 1 was dated December 18. The two datasheets were both for Shorbird -- recovery reports for AA8856 and KY0953 in Ohio.

You are very, very bad (meaning really, really funny). I laughed for 5 minutes. You even managed to stencil the crates. You must be a Photoshop ninja!

I have visions of large warehouses stacked to the ceiling with dusty crates of disks purchased 50 years ago at a bargain rate, and still waiting to be used.

The December statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There was only one datasheet updated with a new GEOCAC recovery log. It was a November 2009 recovery report for FY0338 by ArtMan, which he noted in the Geocaching log was entered 2 years after the fact.

The November statistics are available on the statistics page. The maps and counts by county have been updated also. There were 682 datasheets updated with new GEOCAC recovery logs. The most recent recovery added to the datasheets was dated November 28.

I agree with Holtie22. A lot of intersection stations like that one were used for mapping purposes, not for precision surveys. Usually the requirement was for precision only as good as the width of a line on a map -- which for the USGS topo maps, is about a dozen feet. As long as the steeple wasn't rebuilt in a different location or changed in architecture in some way, the new rod should be as good as the old rod. Here is one that had to be marked destroyed, as you can see from the photos in the log: LY2576. See this wiki page for some additional information about intersection stations.

Ha! Well, at least they thoroughly described how to find what is NOT the station.

Yep, all I did was update the thumbnail maps and the full-page maps. The Zoomify map will have to wait until next month, unless I find the time to regenerate all the tiles for it.

Ok, I'll add the percentage map to the monthly gallery. The county summary data file has been revised also, and is available at this link. Those of you who like to paint by numbers can use the data file to calculate how many recoveries would be needed to change a county.