The PID GRID... like a giant DeLorme Atlas...

[+NorthWes]

As I was looking at the "PID GRID" it occured to me this looked like an immense DeLorme challenge... what a job it would be to cover the nation! Has it been done? Is there anyone logging their PIDs block by block? Have I stumbled over something that's already been remarked upon? I didn't see it in a thread search - but I usually can't find my own glasses on my desktop either.

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

Me & Bucky has a map on their profile page showing the PID Grids they have found benchmarks in.

 

Click Here for their profile page which has the map.

 

They have found benchmarks in quite a few PID Grid sections!

 

John

[+NorthWes]

That's an awesome chunk of this country Me & Bucky's covered, isn't it?

I see that map and all I hear is that Simon & Garfunkel song 'America'

 

'and we walked off to look for America...'

[+gpsblake]

That's an interesting map.

 

I've got the entire state of SC benchmarks on my Delorme Topo program.

 

But I am just curious why my area has so many AA#### PID's when that should be in Southern Florida.

[+NorthWes]

Interesting - Oddly enough there's AA7627 right here in Anchorage Alaska - on (local general aviation) Merrill airfield, monumented in 1967. We have TT series with some older UV and UW prefixes thrown in, but there are a few oddballs scattered in here & there (PID oddballs, I mean - before anyone remarks on how everyone up here's an oddball! .)

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

There was a discussion on this way back whe rogbarn placed the PID GRID map.

 

The AA were used to fill in holes and later resets.

That is why they are scattered all onver the country.

 

Not as full as me and bucky but I now have from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic coast.

 

I think I was the first to complete this task.

I use a different pid grid.

I do the same thing in my GPS TRACKMAKER.

I have also been keeping the tracks of my visits.

I turn it on while looking for them after letting it settle I turn the tracks off and go to the next station and repeat.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Hey, NorthWes, I noticed that you picked up a KV at Nonsense (KV4908) in my old hometown.

The local 'fill in' PIDs seem to be AI and AB, rather than AA. Not counting them, I only have 12 PID grids.

Lets not give 2oldfarts any ideas for a new contest!

[+Klemmer]

Out here in SoCal, we have AB fillins, and it seems that out here, all CORS stations are always AJ.

[+rogbarn]

I seem to remember that many of the AA thru AL or so combinations have been used in scattered places in the country for newer stations, resets, etc. It would depend on what kind of challenge you want to do, a PID challenge or degree box challenge? If you choose a PID challenge, you would have to only accept Ax PID from their appropriate squares. Or maybe not, depending on how you want to setup your challenge.

[+gpsblake]

Lexington County SC has - AA, AB, AC, AE, AH, AI, AJ, DE, DF, DH, and EC

 

The DF and DH are all of the 300+ benchmarks that Lexington County put out in 2002 and 2003. None of which are listed on gc.com but I've recorded about 10 of them on Waymarking.com - The AA series around here were all established in 1993 by the South Carolina Geodetic Survey.

 

The older ones are all DE or EC pids.

[+Black Dog Trackers]

By the way, the PID grid map was originally made by Zhanna and is here on her survey marks website along with some other interesting items such as some USGS data sheets from a few northeastern states and a collection of local benchmark databases on websites.

[Wintertime]

By the way, the PID grid map was originally made by Zhanna and is here on her survey marks website along with some other interesting items such as some USGS data sheets from a few northeastern states and a collection of local benchmark databases on websites.

Yeah, her NGS PID bookmarklet is great! I dragged it into my Firefox bookmark bar and use it all the time.

 

Patty