DaveD Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 I am very pleased to announce that Casey Brennan (Casey.Brennan@noaa.gov) is now the official Geocaching/ Bench Mark Hunting Liaison. Casey will use his talents to enhance the interaction and partnerships between NGS and the Geocaching/Bench Mark hunting community. Casey will not replace Cheryl Malone as the NGS resource for database corrections, but will spend some time getting to know this community better and looking at ways in which NGS can take greater advantage of the capabilities of geocachers and the proven commitment many of you have to improving the accuracy and quality of data NGS provides in the National Spatial Reference System. Casey comes to NGS as part of the Presidential Management Fellowship Program and will be investigating new and innovative ways in which NGS can broaden our outreach efforts to the public. Quote
+Zhanna Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Welcome, Casey ... I look forward to working with you! ~Zhanna http://surveymarks.planetzhanna.com/ Quote
caseyb Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Thanks for the welcome. I realize there has been a number of new names thrown out recently, but I wanted let everyone here know that I specifically requested this position/project. My wife and I are active in the letterboxing world, which is something of a cousin to Geocaching. I am really interested in this little hobby, and I really want to work with this community. I also want to officially acknowledge all of the help that the Geocaching community has given to NGS. I have a few ideas and project I am hoping to launch along those lines. More on that later. Well, thats my official hello. -Casey- Quote
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Thanks again DaveD, Hi Caseyb, Welcome to our little world of fun,and adventures and madness. Looking forward with Anticipation your upcoming projects. Here is one of several more for today on the National Map Corps,once I turn it in. I wish we had a place to put them all with the coordinates in map form,available for the public. I do,I wish we did. All the logable NGS marks are getting farther away from me now,and slowly getting further, that is,the one's have not recovered from my Centre point. Quote
+Black Dog Trackers Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Welcome, caseyb !!! Glad you could come to partner with us. I hope you also do some benchmark hunting and logging on this site. There's still plenty to find around here. One thing that would really help is if you could answer (or get answers for) a bunch of unanswered questions in the thread called Ask Ngs Questions About Reporting Criteria. Please consider answering any question in there that looks it was not answered by the NGS. You could cut it from there and paste it and an answer here, or just answer it there in that thread. Quote
Jeremy Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 I'll try to contact you guys when I can, but I'd like to extend an offer to create an additional official "unofficial" forum for NGS recovery efforts by benchmark hunters. If you would like to do this to separate the more recreational discussions with the more hardcore NGS recovery folks, we'd be happy to do this. I know it is somewhat difficult for government agencies to host forums. Personally if there is a better way to update our own database for recovery efforts, instead of using the old-fashioned (and difficult to parse) datasheets, we'd also like to work with you on that. Welcome! Quote
+Colorado Papa Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) Welcome to Casey. Looking forward to your inputs. Personally if there is a better way to update our own database for recovery efforts, instead of using the old-fashioned (and difficult to parse) datasheets, we'd also like to work with you on that. Jeremy, Rather than update gc.com files, the gc.com PID datapage could contain everything except the description. Add a Detailed NGS Description radio button which would access the NGS datapage directly as a sub-window, just like we have in this particular case for Post A Reply. Make it a larger window (90%?)with a PRINT option. Edited October 22, 2004 by Colorado Papa Quote
caseyb Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 One thing that would really help is if you could answer (or get answers for) a bunch of unanswered questions in the thread called Ask Ngs Questions About Reporting Criteria. Please consider answering any question in there that looks it was not answered by the NGS. You could cut it from there and paste it and an answer here, or just answer it there in that thread. I am heading out of town for some GIS training next week, so I wont be able to get to it for a little bit. But I will try to tackle it when I get back. -Casey- Quote
+Black Dog Trackers Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 caseyb - Cool. No hurry. When I go out of town for a business trip I take along some datasheets so that I can do some benchmarks there in the evening (or night)! It gives me a chance to add another state to my list of states I've found benchmarks in and also adds a couple more 2-letter codes to my list of 2-letter PID codes. I try to find a couple within walking distance of my hotel and go out at night or early in the morning. Quote
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