From: Kenny Reed (kreed@pintoeng.com)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 10:22:55 PST
i am a surveyor so i have some inside info about how good you can get with
gps now-a-days. I know that our equipment made my trimble can get to 0.001
feet of error. in real time. which means that after 3 mins you can know to
that tolerance where you are in the coordinate system and datum that you are
on. we use state place coords. for our jobs which is a lot different than
county g.i.s. systems and even u.s.g.s. coord. systems. there are literally
100's of different systems of coords. in the US. The gps technology out
today is very good for horizontal like i said 0.001 ft. but the elevation is
the weak point of it. all in all it is very very good stuff. we can
stake out 335 piles in two days which would take at least a week with a
convention gun and prism. but that is only if you are out in the open.
trees and overpasses are killer to the signal you get from the sat. but at
65,000 for a used demo unit you are better off paying someone 1000 or so to
do whatever work you need. i
Kenny Reed
1968 M35A2 W/W, Whistler
Hopefully Ring Mount and .50 cal soon
----- Original Message -----
From: "ygmir" <ygmir@onemain.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: [MV] speaking of GPS.....
> Hi all,
> I'd sure like to, at times, know where the heck I am.
> I often feel like the Phukarwey Indian tribe........ when rambling the
> back country in my M35, or, M?? Coot.
> Does any one know about these, and, especially getting an accurate one,
> maybe down to a foot or so?
> I know they have them for surveying, or, techniques for getting that
> accurate. Are there Mil. ones available that are that good?
> I'd also like to set the corners on some remote mountain land I'm going to
> use to raise a Yak heard, and, park my M.V.'s near the Yak shed with the
> ballistic curtains at openings, so, no rogue poacher will attack my
> peaceful high altitude ruminants.........
> ( I had to call the "shelter" I'm building there a Yak shed, so, the
> county "building and land use dept." would allow it. They said I could
> raise livestock there, but, not live or stay over 30 days at a
> time..........)
> Forgive me for straying off the "locating my M.V. subject.
> Thanks for any advise,
> Henry
> (Yak herder) it's a funny, and ironic story..........
>
>
>
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