For some reason building sites, especially large ones, use GPS as a quick way to measure things rather than setting up a theodolite which needs a trained person to use it.
Cheerio John On Wed, May 8, 2024, 05:39 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 7 May 2024, at 23:56, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So if you're building something in a remote location and not buried in > the forest it might actually be useful. > > > in remote locations it doesn’t seem very relevant to get cm precision from > GNSS. You could just mark any spot on the ground and measure from this > local 0,0 point, its exact position on the globe doesn’t matter (unless you > are dealing with border distances > to neighbors and the like, which is not typical for remote locations)
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