Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Topozone Discrepancies
Date: May 15, 2001 @ 18:00
Author: Bill Hanrahan (Bill Hanrahan <hanrahan@...>)
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> Anyone using www.topozone.com to acquire GPS coordinates should be[www.debticated.com]
> aware that they are using a mixture of NAD27 and NAD83 UTM
> coordinates, but there is no way to tell which is which. They
> believe all coordinates are NAD27. However, last week I relied on
> this misinformation during a bushwhack from the Delaware Arc monument
> to the Delaware - Maryland - Pennsylvania tri-point and ended up in a
> hay field 200 meters north of the tri-state monument. Using the same
> target coordinates, but interpreting them using the NAD83 datum
> yields the correct result.
>
> I have contacted topozone about this problem.
>
> Regards,
> BJB
>
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