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As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
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https://xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
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"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD -
As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
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https://xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
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"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD -
As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
--
https://xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
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"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD -
As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
--
https://xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
--
"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD -
As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
--
https://xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
--
"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD -
The NSRS Horizontal Datums Will Be Tectonic Plate Based! | Changes To The Vertical Datums
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https://geodesy.noaa.gov/datums/newdatums/index.shtml <-- details of the new NSRS datums, etc at the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) website
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #coordinates #coordinatesystems #NationalGeodeticSurvey #NGS #datums #verticaldatum #NorthAmerica #horizontaldatum #NSRS #geology #NorthAmericanPlate #CaribbeanPlate #tectonics #platetectonics #movement #GPS #GNSS #geomorphometry #NAVD88 #NAD83 #accuracy #precision