1. Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    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
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 07:44 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  2. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=49&lon=-117&visi t=4 ... me too as there are several difficulties here beyond my ability to resolve first tho
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 10:33 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  3. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    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
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 14:53 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  4. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... We were slashdotted yesterday(i.e. someone posted an article about the DCP on slashdot.org), which has caused higher than normal server loads. ... Of
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 15:58 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  5. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ok it is an even better conundrum now that i presumably have the right data again & only part of the difficulty lies in how many significant digits to trust
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 16:11 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  6. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... si ... article ... than ... yes thanx more below ... the ... for this reason i did also use the nad27 & convert them to nad83 myself & derive an extra
    Jul 27, 2004 @ 16:27 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  7. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... What method/software are you using for your calculations? ... Because unless you know the datum used to express coordinates, you don t really know the
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 02:05 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  8. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... sit=4 ... 2 ... i dont know how it is done but i just use this online converter http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nadcon.prl which is presumably to nad27
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 04:05 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  9. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    What is the authority of the GLO / General Land Office? All the info we have seen talks about the 1909 USGS marker. Whether we can verify the center of the
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 04:08 - Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
  10. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    The Congress created the General Land Office in 1812 in the Department of the Treasury to oversee the disposition of federal lands. In 1946, the GLO was
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 06:35 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  11. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... they do appear in 1925 to have observed & scrupulously imitated the meridian of the state line as marked in 1909 because that is precisely the separation
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 20:22 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  12. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    whooops a crossing of the eyeballs & slip of the tongue corrected below please read eastward for westward & vice versa ... imitated ... boise ... please cross
    Jul 28, 2004 @ 20:33 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  13. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    dave just to sum up now as much as possible & then suspend the try until we can do better ... the ... right & since no news is good news i am even more
    Aug 01, 2004 @ 19:58 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  14. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... I m still waiting. The person I emailed has been out of the office. I spoke to the secretary of the commissioner last week, and she is going to try and get
    Aug 01, 2004 @ 20:39 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  15. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... thats ok it isnt absolutely necessary to check this any more for if it had been nad27 canada the known 5 meter northsouth offset from nad27 conus would
    Aug 01, 2004 @ 22:29 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  16. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... No, the best way, at least from the East, would be to follow the gravel road past the turnoff I took to get to BCIDWA, and along until it ends near the
    Aug 01, 2004 @ 23:52 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  17. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    very well we appear to be in complete agreement so i too will indulge myself a wish i had done that also but in this case i can fulfill the wish immediately
    Aug 02, 2004 @ 02:50 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
  18. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    ... I have spoken to both the Canadian Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the IBC: - neither one was aware that there are variations of NAD27 - neither
    Aug 06, 2004 @ 02:40 - Dave Patton [DCP] ("Dave Patton [DCP]" <dpatton@...>)
  19. Re: Visit to BCIDWA (and 49N 117W)
    since both the canadian commissioner & deputy never heard of nad27canada & since nad27 unqualified is the same as nad27conus i feel even more confident now
    Aug 06, 2004 @ 07:44 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)