never mind
i figured out what was wrong
the correct monument numbers are 194 & 195
not 195 & 196
dohhh
back to the cruncher & i will report in again with real findings
asap
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Patton [DCP]"
> <dpatton@c...> wrote:
> > I've posted the narrative and photos detailing my
> > recent visit to the British Columbia/Idaho/Washington
> > (BCIDWA) tripoint and 49N 117W degree confluence on
> > the Degree Confluence Project website:
> >
>
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=49&lon=-117&visi
> t=4
> >
> > Hopefully the combination of the narrative and photos
> > will answer some of the questions raised in the prior
> > thread I started about BCIDWA(and BCIDMT).
> >
> > I'll leave it to 'the experts' to determine what class
> > of tripoint visit this is ;-)
>
> me too
> as there are several difficulties here beyond my ability to
resolve
>
> first
> tho i did get a good look at your excellent report last night
> the confluence page seems to have seized up this morning
> so i cant get back to it now to double check the data
> tho i trust it will soon be restored
>
> but in any case
> when it was working
> i was able to copy these nad83 coords for the 1909 disk
> as presented on the 1998 tablet
> nlat 48d59s57s110
> wlong 117d01m56s715
>
> & tho the bcidwa monument does appear to be situated near
the
> middle of the clearcut & therefore nearly smack dab on caus
> these coords dont compare well to the nad83 coords for the
> neighboring markers published by the ibc
>
> namely
> marker 196 to the east
> nlat 48d59m57s6
> wlong 116d59m28s0
> & marker 195 to the west
> nlat 48d59m57s2
> wlong 117d01m43s6
>
> if all 3 sets of coords are correctly stated
> the bcidwa marker would lie some distance west of 195
> yikes
> as well as about 30 feet south of the clearcut
> yikes again
>
> so something is clearly & seriously out of whack there
>
> but maybe i should wait til you get the report on line again
> so i can at least compare your gps readings to these coords
> just to get an idea which ones might be off
>
> in any event
> forgetting the coords for the moment
> & based on your pix & descriptions alone
> it certainly looks like at least class c
>
> > If it's in some way important to the visit class, I
> > did touch the monument, the USGS brass cap, the US GLO
> > brass cap, the LSAW plaque, and the ground all around
> > the monument.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Patton
> > Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
> > http://www.confluence.org/
> > My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/