Having fun and serving a purpose...

[Surveyor1]

I just wanted to let everyone know that by having fun hunting "benchmarks" (should be called something like "control monuments") you are helping a lot of professions. It makes project planning a lot easier when we know the mark is there. I've spent countless hours looking for monuments for project control that weren't there.

 

Thanks!

 

Surveyor1

[ArtMan]

I see the National Geodetic Survey has provided for submitting recovery information, and they seem to welcome submissions from individuals (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/FORMS_PROCESSING-cgi-bin/recvy_entry_www.prl). Have any benchmark cachers submitted their info to NGS? It seems this would be a worthy enterprise.

[+OzzieSan]

I submitted this one because the description was for a station many miles away.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=TR1243

 

My recovery has been added to the NGS database. Pretty cool, more interesting places to visit and the NGS database remains current!

[+headmj]

I submitted a benchmark as destroyed because it was a radio tower that ws replaced and rebulit 20 yards away. May as well be the moon in this business It is recorded as destroyed now

[+Dawgies]

I submit everything and the NGS has updated each accordingly. Most within a weeks time!

 

I think it's neat that 50 years from now my kids will be able to see that I was there. If only by initials.....

 

~Honest Value Never Fails~

[+Dawgies]

I submit everything and the NGS has updated each accordingly. Most within a weeks time!

 

I think it's neat that 50 years from now my kids will be able to see that I was there. If only by initials.....

 

~Honest Value Never Fails~

[skydiver]

Yup, I've submitted several and all my submissions now appear on the official datasheets. Very cool!

 

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[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

I am also glad to see all this happening, when I first started getting data sheets from the USGS,&BLM the data was very hard to get you actually had to write them,BLM,& USGS and have it mailed to you which do not give longitude or lattitude readings. I was also told that you could not use the GPS for very accurate info but it seems the tide has changed now. My Trilateration of the Triangulation system paid off, you know they have the capability to watch and move what a specific set of calculations are doing (offencive-defensive)I also know that the surveyors are out there looking for these too, helps allaround A ONE NATION UNDER (GPS)! not to mock [GOD],

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

I am also glad to see all this happening, when I first started getting data sheets from the USGS,&BLM the data was very hard to get you actually had to write them,BLM,& USGS and have it mailed to you which do not give longitude or lattitude readings. I was also told that you could not use the GPS for very accurate info but it seems the tide has changed now. My Trilateration of the Triangulation system paid off, you know they have the capability to watch and move what a specific set of calculations are doing (offencive-defensive)I also know that the surveyors are out there looking for these too, helps allaround A ONE NATION UNDER (GPS)! not to mock [GOD],