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I can remember reading somewhere, about who to contact at the NGS if you come across errors on the datasheets (it wasn't Deb Brown), but can't find it again. Can anyone guide me to the correct person?

 

When I was looking at Holograph's extreme benchmark's for Louisiana, the northernmost benchmark DF7916 is listed as Madison Parish, Louisiana on the NGS datasheet.....when in actuality it is in Madison County, Illinois as per the description and coordinates on the same datasheet. Giving distances from the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was a big red flag to me. :)

 

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=DF7916

 

Thanks

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Good find. I've sent a notice to the NGS database team to have this corrected. Hopefully it shouldn't take very long. Thanks for reporting this and helping us to keep the data in the National Spatial Reference System as accurate as possible.

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Good find. I've sent a notice to the NGS database team to have this corrected. Hopefully it shouldn't take very long. Thanks for reporting this and helping us to keep the data in the National Spatial Reference System as accurate as possible.

 

Thanks for the help DaveD. Just for future reference (and since I am still a newbie to this), if I ever have any more to report with similar problems, should I just contact you? There are a few more that I have recovered that are listed in the wrong parishes (our version of counties) down here in LA. Is that even significant enough to report?

 

I had been going back over the things I have been reading of late and found where I saw what I was talking about in the opening post about error submissions. I have no idea if this information is still accurate since it is from 2005.

 

Q: I found an error on the datasheet. What should I do?

 

A: We would love to hear what the error is. To report it, don’t submit an update, but instead send an e-mail to cheryl.malone@noaa.gov

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=95774

 

I really do appreciate all the help and guidance. I hope to get to the point where I don't have to ask all of these newbie questions. Thanks everyone

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Go ahead and send me whatever you have. I will review them and make the appropriate corrective actions. Note that Cheryl Malone has now retired from NGS. I don't want people sending corrections directly to the database team as most of them are computer types and not necessarily familiar with some of the protocols that need to be considered before making these corrections.

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Go ahead and send me whatever you have. I will review them and make the appropriate corrective actions. Note that Cheryl Malone has now retired from NGS. I don't want people sending corrections directly to the database team as most of them are computer types and not necessarily familiar with some of the protocols that need to be considered before making these corrections.

 

Fantastic Dave. I'll go back over my recoveries and find the 2 that are sticking out in my mind. I'll send you an email with all the information.

 

Thanks again for helping,

 

Bobby

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Hopefully it shouldn't take very long.

 

Boy, It sure didn't take long at all. That was fast. When I checked this morning, everything was fixed. Thanks DaveD and everyone at the NGS.

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