Tech Tips and Tricks

October 20, 2018 Maryland Society of Surveyors 52nd Annual Fall Conference & Exhibition Stephen Caldwell, P.S. Presenter Stephen Caldwell Professional Land Surveyor West Virginia and Kentucky

Disclaimer: All or most of this data is taken from various sites on the World Wide Web and the App Stores. This presentation in no way, shape or form recommends any vendors, applications, programs or web sites over any other that are available.

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OK HERE WE GO SECTION ONE SMART PHONE APPS PHONE APPLICATIONS LandGlide

Explore maps of the US with overlaid parcel boundaries and attributes of over 140 million properties in 2794 U.S. counties covering over 96% of U.S. population. Hover over a property to instantly discover details, including owner, address, and APN. Simply tap any property's description to display even more parcel attributes, such as acreage, market value, and land use code, where available. Search Real Estate Portal USA's national parcel dataset using owner, address, or APN keywords. Track your location in real time over property boundary lines using your device's GPS. Try LandGlide free for seven days! At the end of your free trial, choose to subscribe monthly for $9.99 or yearly for $99.99. If you choose to subscribe, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew 24-hours prior to the end of the current billing cycle of your choice (monthly or yearly). Manage your subscription settings on your device's Account Settings. PHONE APPLICATIONS Map Plus

The most powerful and versatile tool for viewing and editing custom maps, surveying, editing or managing mass of your geography or travel data.

●You can use Map Plus as a professional GIS tool for geographic data gathering, editing, measuring, cartography, surveying, planning, online/offline viewing and many other management. ●You can also use Map Plus to help your outdoor activities and global travels, for trip planning, offline map downloading, track/photo/video recording, or sharing memories with friends. PHONE APPLICATIONS Field Area Measurements Planimeter

Planimeter measures distances and land areas on maps.

Measure your outdoor projects - lawns, fences, paving, or anything else visible on the satellite map. Quickly measure lot sizes and buildings. Contractors can easily measure landscaping, paving, asphalt, flat roofs and more.

“Planimeter is the essential distance mapping app.” — AppAdvice.com, Distance Mapping AppGuide

Planimeter supports imperial and metric units. PHONE APPLICATIONS

Field Area Measurements GPS AREA GPS Area Measure is an excellent application for the calculation of the area on the map. App gives the highly accurate area, distance, angle and volume information. PHONE APPLICATIONS

Field Area Measurements MEASURE YOUR LAND

Measure roads, buildings or lands from the bird's eye view.. PHONE APPLICATIONS Field Area Measurements

GEO MEASURE This is a great tool for anyone who wants to find geographical areas or distances. Use the app for finding distances between far away places or just calculate the bike path before you actually attempt it. PHONE APPLICATIONS CompassPro CompassPro replicates the look and feel of classic pocket compass hardware in use since the 1800s, adding modern features and technologies. The app uses advanced OpenGL graphics (normally reserved for games) to render 3D floating compass hardware for realistic operation. POLL

Are You Making Precise Temperature And Pressure Measurements Prior ToConducting Precise Surveys?

PHONE APPLICATIONS Barometer

This App features a Barometer for weather, an Altimeter for outdoor activities, a barometric Trend and a Notification Center Widget. This app uses the barometric pressure sensor found in the iPhone 6 and newer (including Plus models) and iPad Air 2, Mini 4 as well as iPad Pro (both sizes). PHONE APPLICATIONS Pro Altimeter

Pro Altimeter has a dead simple interface. Barometric altitude and GPS altitude are displayed in large easy to read numbers, showing units of both feet and meters, and giving real-time accuracy estimates from the hardware

Proper calibration is necessary to measure altitude from barometric pressure 1. Use GPS altitude. 2. Manually enter altitude. 3. Manually enter pressure. 4. Check local airports. Once calibrated, Pro Altimeter keeps track of the time since its last calibration. Because weather and local barometric pressure change over time, the app will warn you when 12 hours have elapsed since the last calibration by flashing the "CALIBRATE" button. You should calibrate as frequently as practical -- for example, on a hike, calibrate whenever you pass a trail marker or elevation benchmark. But at a minimum, calibrate at least every 12 hours or whenever weather changes in your area. PHONE APPLICATIONS Theodolite

Theodolite lets you take geo-tagged camera images, screenshots, movies, and screen movies directly from the app, with 2X and 4X digital zoom and fast buffered saves. You can choose to overlay geographical data, time, date, and custom notes directly on photos and movies for later reference.

View your current position on the built in map view, with optional new Outdoors maps that include topo contours (feet or meters), roads, trails, landmarks, campgrounds, ski lifts, and more. Custom "live" map markers continually update distance/heading relative to the current location. Share map markers and nav calculator points with other users of Theodolite and Theodolite HD via SMS text messages and e-mail. This powerful capability opens up a wide range of collaborative uses which include team land surveying, accident investigations, spotting of wild fires, triangulation of landmarks, and advanced tactical observation and targeting operations. POLL

Have You Been Caught In Severe Weather Situations While On A Project Site?

PHONE APPLICATIONS Weather Channel

•Trusted forecasts help you plan your day, week, or even the next hour. •Detailed weather conditions include “feels like” temperature, sunrise time, sunset time, wind speed, humidity, UV index, visibility, dew point, and pressure. (Access them by tapping the circle on your main screen). •Incredibly fast and accurate maps offer past and future radar as well as customizable map layers. •Push alerts & badges help alert you of severe weather in your area. To set your alerts, tap the magnifying glass to open your favorite locations. Then, tap the information icon next to your location of choice. From there, you can toggle on/off severe and pollen alerts. •Severe weather mode - During a severe event, we’ll activate a severe ticker at the top of your App. If the event is a hurricane, you can click the alert to see our interactive hurricane tracker. • Weather news - From big storms to bizarre findings, stay up-to-date with the latest weather news, photos, and videos. •Statewideflulevelsandpollenforecasts. •Travel destination weather (airplane icon) - Get everything you need to plan your next trip, such as average temperatures and precipitation, forecasts, the best time to visit, maps, and details to understand how the weather feels compared to your hometown. PHONE APPLICATIONS Dark Sky

Dark Sky can tell you at a glance exactly when it will rain (or snow) up to an hour in advance, so you’re free to walk the dog or run out to lunch and know you’ll stay dry.You can also explore the most beautiful weather animation you’ve ever seen, both forward in time or back. Using GPS, Dark Sky is able to create forecasts for your precise location, giving you minute-by-minute predictions for the next hour and hour-by-hour forecasts for the next day and week. Dark Sky comes with advanced notification options: Receive down-to-the-minute alerts before it starts raining at your exact location, get notified of government severe weather alerts (for such things as thunderstorms, flooding, hurricanes, etc.), or even create your own custom notifications covering the next 24 hours for things like temperature, wind, precipitation and more. Even if you haven't opened the app in days, Dark Sky will tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it. PHONE APPLICATIONS Weather Bug

•Pollen Map Layer: Easily manage your allergies with our latest map layer showing today’s local and national allergy forecast TRACK ANY WEATHER CONDITION •Real-Time Pinpoint Forecasts: Get the most accurate current, hourly and 10-day weather forecasts •Enhanced Interactive Map: Visualize weather conditions with over 17 map layers • Spark Lightning Alerts: Your personal lightning detector, Spark gives you minute-by-minute, mile-by-mile lightning proximity alerts • Forecasts for 2.6 million+ locations worldwide • Largest total lightning detection network • 10,000+ professional-grade weather stations • Live weather & traffic cameras •Get notified of severe weather 50% faster with our exclusive Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts •Receive all National Weather Service watches and warnings ark - shows and tells you how close lightning is to your location. PHONE APPLICATIONS Radar Scope

•RadarScope is a specialized display utility for weather enthusiasts and meteorologists that allows you view NEXRAD Level 3 and super resolution radar data along with Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm, Flash Flood Warnings, and predicted storm tracks issued by the US National Weather Service. It can display the latest reflectivity, velocity, dual-polarization, and other products from any NEXRAD or TDWR radar site in the United States, Guam and Puerto Rico, as well as reflectivity and velocity data from Environment Canada radars. These aren't smoothed PNG or GIF images, this is native radar data rendered in its original radial format for a high level of detail. POLL

Can You Identify All Trees In The Maryland Forest?

PHONE APPLICATIONS Leafsnap

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland,andthe Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Leafsnap contains beautiful high- resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruits, petioles, seeds, and bark to aid identification. These high-resolution images were created by the conservation organization Finding Species.

Leafsnap currently includes trees found in the Northeastern United States and Canada. The inclusion of Canadian trees is through collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Federation, with support from TD Friends of the Environment Foundation. PHONE APPLICATIONS VTree

Virginia Tech Tree Identification brings the award winning Virginia Tech digital dendrology material to your iPhone. It contains fact sheets for 969 woody plants from all over North America with an in- depth description, range map and thousands of color images of leaves, flowers, fruit, twigs, bark and form. Users can narrow the species list for any location in North America using the phone's GPS or any entered address or zip code. Basically the application can become "The Woody Plants of Where You Are Standing." Users can further narrow the species list by answering a series of very simple tree attribute questions. A feature also allows you to send any tree related question to "Dr. Dendro," a tree expert in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. PHONE APPLICATIONS Arbor Day Tree Identification Guide

This easy to use tree id guide uses a step-by-step approach to identify more than 250 trees in the United States and Canada, at a fraction of the cost of the print version. Additionally,you can post the locations of the trees you have identified on Twitter and participate in our crowd-sourced tree census.

*Identify 250 of North America’s most common trees. *Full Color and accurate botanical illustrations and pictures for effortless identification *Simple step-by-step method makes it extremely easy to use and great for everyone from hikers, to young students, to tree professionals. *Learn more about each tree with detailed descriptions of each including, hardiness zone, potential height and width, and unique identifying traits including leaves, flowers, and bark. *Keep track of the trees you’ve identified using the GPS and mapping functionality integrated into your iPhone * Share the locations of identified trees via Twitter *Experts agree that the tree leaf identification is the easiest and most accurate way for identifying trees. PHONE APPLICATIONS TerraFlex Mobile Unify all of your data collection and update activities with a single system for everyday geospatial field work. Use TerraFlex to collect or update any kind of data in the field with simple forms that you create. Whether your day includes capturing GIS data, incident reports, emergency management or simple inspections, you can use the same streamlined approach to collect geolocated information. •Hosted in the cloud to push out changes to the team instantly •Stay organized by grouping field assignments and data •Data administration and management is done for you via the cloud •Make use of powerful data update workflows with TerraFlex Advanced PHONE APPLICATIONS Field Lens - Fieldlens.com

FIELD MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Share Task with crews remotely and online

Collaborate as a team on issues that may arrive.

See what crews are working on.

Assign task remotely

Punch list items from the field PHONE APPLICATIONS Notes

COLLECT GEOTAGGED NOTES, VIDEOS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND VOICE MEMO’S. Apple has upgraded the default Notes app. You can now scan documents, take photos and video, add sketches, create tables in addition to the standard text. PHONE APPLICATIONS GPS PLAN

GPS Plan is a software supporting any form of analysis to determine visibility for GNSS satellites. By you set the date and place, you will be able to show sky plots, the number of available satellites and DOP (Dilution of Precision). Almanac to calculate satellites position is downloaded from QZ- vision automatically. PHONE APPLICATIONS GPS TIME

The date time used by the Global Positioning System (GPS) is normally expressed as a week number and a seconds-of-week. This software can convert the GPS week-seconds format into the equivalent local date time and UTC date time, and vice- versa. Useful for individuals utilizing Rinex Editor PHONE APPLICATIONS Julianator

This app converts a date between Julian Day of Year and Gregorian. For example, October 3, 2015 converts to 2015-276 and 2015-276 converts to October 3, 2015.

This app will convert both directions. PHONE APPLICATIONS Coordinates Converter PRO

Displays your current position into your local coordinates reference system.

Converts any WGS84 geodetic coordinates to any local Cartesian CRS and vice versa.

Projects map points to local coordinates.

Calculates orthometric height from ellipsoidal altitude and vice versa. PHONE APPLICATIONS Surveying Calculator

Surveying Calculator is an application that every Surveyor might need when he's on land. It contains many useful functions that would help getting a quick answer for a mathematical calculation such as : - point coordinates - point leveling -VerticalAlignment PHONE APPLICATIONS FindAControl

FindAControl provides map-based access to National Geodetic Survey (NGS) survey control data, eliminating return trips to the office when control cannot be found. Users can easily find authoritative survey control stations on a map, see the quality and type of stations available near them and view the NGS datasheets that summarize key geodetic information they need. PHONE APPLICATIONS Terrain Navigator Pro Terrain Navigator Pro provides an affordable and simple solution for professionals to collect and seamlessly transmit data from the field to the office. Use the TNP mobile app to map, find, collect, and share field data. Then, with a mobile connection, instantly share field data with the TNP desktop software to analyze GPS and GIS data at the office. TNP serves a professional market, including search and rescue teams, law enforcement, foresters, surveyors, the oil and gas industry, and land managers. This mobile app is ideal for entry-level GIS applications and enables professionals to use the smartphone in their pocket instead of a consumer-grade GPS device. PHONE APPLICATIONS DISTO™ sketch The DISTO™ sketch app in many cases, replaces the classical note pad. You can easily draw sketches (e.g. layouts of rooms) and apply measuring results to them. Each line can be named and you can even add comments as needed. Use the sketching app to take photographs of the object you are measuring. With this functionality,you have an ideal tool to record your daily work. Create as many sketches as needed and add titles to them, making it easier to apply the measuring results after returning to your office. Youcan also email sketches directly from the job site to the office for further processing. This increases your productivity,saving you time and money. PHONE APPLICATIONS GasBuddy

FEATURES:

Find cheapest gas near you

Find cheapest gas by city/zip/postal code

Report gas prices to help other people find cheap gas

Chance of winning $100 of gas every day!

Earn points for reporting gas prices

Earn awards for posting gas prices

Save money every time you fill up at the cheapest stations PHONE APPLICATIONS Fuelly

•Tracks gas mileage and vehicle maintenance • Attachments to store photos and PDFs • Online sync to Fuelly.com •Charts: MPG, stats, gas price, gas expenses, service expenses •Customizable service reminders, with presets like oil changes, tire rotations, and more • Priority support via in app messaging • Supports multiple vehicles • Store vehicle data: VIN, License Plate, etc. • Excel compatible email reports (CSV attachment) PHONE APPLICATIONS WAZE

Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, gas money,and improve daily commuting for all. You can also actively report accidents, police traps and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts along your route and find the cheapest gas prices around you shared by the community.Plus, you can add friends, send locations or keep others posted on your arrival time. -Live routing based on community driven, real-time traffic & road info -Community reported alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps, road closures, and more -Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation - Live maps, consistently edited and updated by Waze community map editors - Automatic rerouting as conditions change on the road - Send your ETA& real-time drive to update those you’re meeting - Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours, and preferred routes - Find the cheapest gas station on your route - Add information on local places and businesses - Add Facebook friends and sync Contacts - See friends’ ETAwhen driving to the same destination - One tap navigation to Facebook & Calendar events - Earn points as you contribute road info and climb the ranks in your community PHONE APPLICATIONS MileIQ

MileIQ automatically logs your drives and calculate their value so you get the reimbursement or deduction you deserve with a minimum amount of effort. . PHONE APPLICATIONS Genius Fax

Genius Fax is the easiest way to send and receive faxes from your iOS device that stays affordable. No need to go to the dreaded fax store anymore. Genius Fax is fast, simple to use and beautiful. Read below for pricing and subscription information.

Tosend a fax: choose a file from your favorite cloud service (Dropbox, Google Drive, Box) or from any other iOS app (Genius Scan, Safari, Mail…) Toreceive a fax: subscribe for a number and you’re all set. Youreceive documents as PDF and can preview them or open them with any other app. PHONE APPLICATIONS Genius Scan+ Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan your documents on the go and export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files. PHONE APPLICATIONS AutoCAD 360

AutoCAD 360 is a free DWG viewing application, with easy-to-use drawing and drafting tools that allow you to view, create, edit, and share AutoCAD drawings across web and mobile devices - anytime, anywhere. Simplify your site visits with the most powerful drafting and editing tool available.

The AutoCAD 360 mobile app offers an abundance of features and capabilities. Upload and open 2D DWG drawings directly from email or external storage and view all aspects of your DWG file, including external references, layers, and image underlays. Upgrade to AutoCAD 360 Pro to enable editing and drawings tools. Whether working online or offline, in the office or in the field, design every detail, everywhere. THREE LEVELS OF SERVICE AVAILABLE PHONE APPLICATIONS RoomScan Pro

RoomScan Pro draws floor plans all by itself - just touch each wall with your phone PHONE APPLICATIONS SkyLegs

Use our brand new app to manage your logbooks and record your flights via the built-in GPS, whether you're an aeroplane, helicopter, glider or ultralight pilot or any combination. Synchronize with our platform in the cloud and view your processed data in beautiful tables, graphs, reports and maps in any internet browser.Yourdataiskeptsafeon our servers for unlimited time. PHONE APPLICATIONS FIND MY FRIENDS Find My Friends allows you to easily locate friends and family using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Just install the app and invite friends to share locations by choosing from your contacts or entering their email addresses.

When a friend accepts your invitation using theFindMyFriendsappontheirdevice, you can start following their location immediately and they can send a quick request to follow your location. If at any time you don’t want to be followed, you can hide your location with a single switch.

Find My Friends lets you set up location- based alerts that can notify you automatically when a friend arrives at the airport, a child leaves school, or a family member arrives home safely.You can also set up alerts to notify friends about changes in your location. WHAT APPS DO YOU USE

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HAVE YOU SUBMITTED DATATO OPUS?

WEB SITES ADDITIONAL ONLINE GPS PROCESS SITES (AS RANKED BY GPS WORLD)

AUSPOS – Service provided by Geoscience Australia

CenterPointRTX – Trimble Online Service

GAPS University of New Brunswick

APPS Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OPUS U.S. National Geodetic Survey

CSRS-PPP Natural Resources Canada

magicGNSS GNSS PROCESSING SITES AUSPOS: Geoscience Australia Submittal Page: http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gps.pl

AUSPOS is a free service from Geoscience Australia. Access is via a simple web interface, the antenna height and type are entered along with a email address for the returned report set. File submission is via FTP or directly from the web interface.

The returned PDF report is the best looking of the reviewed services and includes a Processing Summary showing a map of the CORS sites that were used in the solution. SINEX files are also available. AUSPOS uses the Bernese GNSS Software for processing baselines, IGS orbits and IGS network stations. Solutions are available for anywhere on the earth.

RINEX files need to be at least 1-hour in length, 6-hour files are recommended. Compact RINEX files are also accepted. Files may be compressed with UNIX, Hatanaka, ZIP, gzip or bzip compression. GNSS PROCESSING SITES Centerpoint RTX Post Processing

Submittal Page: http://www.trimblertx.com/UploadForm.aspx CenterPoint RTX Post Processing is a free service offered by Trimble. It works anywhere in the world and is based on a proprietary Trimble 100+ worldwide CORS network. Accuracy is 2 cm with 1-hour of observation data; 1 cm with 24-hours. Files longer than 24-hours are not accepted. RTX uses GPS, GLONASS and QZSS tracked SV’s.

The reported output frames include ITRF2008 at current epoch and a user selectable frame like NAD83/2011 2010.0. RTX is one of the few services that will directly export NAD83 framed results. A single page PDF and a XML result file are returned by RTX. Unfortunately, it is not possible to copy numerical results from the read-only PDF result file to the clipboard. RTX supports a limited number of receivers (Trimble) and a relatively small subset of IGS modeled antennas. For this test, TEQC was used to stuff the RINEX headers with a comparable Trimble receiver to the actual Ashtech ProFlex 500 receiver that is in use at SGU1. This was all that was required to spoof an accepted device. If the antenna had not been listed, it would have been necessary to spoof the antenna and adjust the height to reflect the difference in L1 phase center offset. GNSS PROCESSING SITES GAPS: University of New Brunswick Submittal Page: http://gaps.gge.unb.ca/indexv520a.php

GAPS is an ongoing project at the University of New Brunswick and was developed by the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering.

File submission is by a web page and GAPS provides a large number of user inputs and potentially allows the highest level of customization of any of the reviewed services:

You may enter a priori coordinates, and a priori constraints

GAPS accepts static or kinematic files

You can set the elevation mask

The Neutral Atmosphere Delay model is selectable

Earth Body Tides and Ocean Tidal Loading can be applied or disabled

GAPS only processes GPS data (no GLONASS.)

Submitted filenames must adhere to the SSSSDDDh.YYt file format. GAPS accepts RINEX and compact RINEX files, they may optionally be gzip, unix compressed or ZIP compressed. GNSS PROCESSING SITES APPS: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Submittal Page: http://apps.gdgps.net/apps_file_upload.php

WARNING! APPS only reports the derived position to the nearest decimeter- meter in geographic (lat/lon) coordinates, while reporting ECEF coordinates to a fraction of a millimeter. If you choose to use APPS, you will need to manually convert the ECEF XYZ to geographic coordinates.

JPL’s APPS is based on GIPSY-OASIS (currently version 5). APPS uses NASA’s 70+ Global GPS Network plus densification from other systems (100+ total receivers distributed globally.)Solutions are typically available with 5 seconds delay from observation.

APPS is easy to use, you just specify a file to upload and then click on ‘Upload’ it takes only 15 seconds to get a result after the file upload is complete. You can optionally register for a free account and use email or FTP for bulk uploads.

APPS also has receiver Live Performance Monitoring: (http://www.gdgps.net/monitoring/index.html) which generates a real time graph of three receivers spread through the world. GNSS PROCESSING SITES OPUS: U.S. National Geodetic Survey

Submittal Page: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/

OPUS solutions are the most common PPP Post-Processed solution in the United States. Two flavors of OPUS are available for single points:

OPUS-Static: Available worldwide, requires 2-hours of data

OPUS-Rapid Static: Available with sufficient nearby CORS stations, requires 15-minutes of data

Long occupations (6+ hours) result in excellent horizontal and GPS- derived ellipsoid heights.

The new OPUS-Projects service processes multiple receivers through multiple sessions to a final processed network adjustment. GNSS PROCESSING SITES CSRS-PPP: Natural Resources Canada

Submittal Page: http://webapp.geod.nrcan.gc.ca/geod/tools-outils/ppp.php

Before using CSRS-PPP, you will need to register for a free user account.

CSRS has a fantastic desktop application named PPP-Direct that you can just drag and drop files onto. PPP-Direct automatically submits the file and saves all typing, greatly reducing the chance of error.

CSRS-PPP uses both GPS and GLONASS (if available) observables. Ocean Title Loading corrections can be overridden.

CSRS-PPP will accept single frequency files for processing. CSRS will accept RINEX and Compact RINEX, and will decode ZIP, GZIP and unix compression formats.

CSRS-PPP has a fantastic PDF report, a .csv file detailing results epoch by epoch and a great machine readable summary file.

The desktop submission tool, coupled with the great output reports made CSRS-PPP my favorite tool. GNSS PROCESSING SITES magicGNSS: GMV

Submittal Instructions: http://magicgnss.gmv.com/ppp/

magicGNSS Blog: http://magicgnss.gmv.com/wordpress/

magicGNSS accepts emailed files and returns solutions by email. Turnaround time is fast and features a nice PDF report plus SINEX, receiver clock bias files, tropospheric delay,KML trajectory and RINEX CLK clock bias files.

Static and kinematic files with observations from GPS, GLONASS are processed by magicGNSS and the service reportedly Galileo-ready.

magicGNSS uses a subset of IGS stations to provide core coverage. WEB SITES

USDA IMAGERY (Forest Service and Soil Conservation) http://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photography/imagery- products/index

Digital Imagery available along with option to order historical prints. Black and White Color Positive Color Infrared WEB SITES

Magnetic Declination http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/declination.shtml

Declination Calculator

Historical Calculation back to 1750 Current Calculation (Required by Minimum Standards) WEB SITES

LAND GRANTS http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/lonnabout.htm#patents

Digital Copies of Historical Land Grants https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/113/html/modpats2.html Poll

Who Has Processed Rinex Gnss Files?

PROGRAMS WINTEQC

http://teqc.silkwerks.com/

EDIT RINEX DATA CUT-SPLICE-SPLIT TURN SATELLITES ON OR OFF DECIMATE EPOCH INTERVAL

DIRECT OPUS SUBMITTAL Programs Google Earth Pro

Google Earth Pro now Free for all users Historical Imagery slider US Parcel Data Layer was just turned off Street View imagery and user posted imagery. Terrain View VariousLayersavailableonline NGS Benchmarks NOAA Aeronautical Charts National Wetlands Inventory Programs DS World

DSWorld is a free program that plots NGS network points by state, county and type (vertical or horizontal) in Google Earth. The program requires the previous installation of Google Earth on your computer. You can create marks and county boundary plots, download photos, Tidal station data and CBL information. WEB SITES

MD511 - http://md511.org/

WV511 http://wv511.org

Road conditions Accidents Construction Traffic

Road Cameras WEB SITES

NOAA – Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center Interactive Snow Information

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html WEB SITES

QCOGO www.q-cogo.com

Offline option

Simple cogo No export WEB SITES

US Army Corps of Engineers U-SMART

USACE Control Monument Database usmart.usace.army.mil/ CLOUD SERVICES Tr i m b l e C o n nec t

Access Services Upload Control Files and Maps to Trimble Connected Community

Upload to Multiple Devices in your Organization Synchronize field files between users. Download and QC Data files while a crew packs up on site.

Synchronize field files to office. Included with Trimble Access yearly maintenance service agreement. CLOUD SERVICES Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 Includes online or yearly subscription to the latest version of the MS-Office Suite (Work, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Notes and Publisher)

Online Cloud Storage options between 1TB and 50 TB. Access to files from field or office. App downloads of the MS-Office included. Synchronize field files to office. CLOUD SERVICES Google Drive and Dropbox

• Google Drive • Free Plan starts at 15GB of data • Pay services up to 50TB. • Dropbox • Basic Plan for 2GB free • Dropbox Pro offers up to 1 TB • Dropbox Business offers unlimited storage. Geo‐Tagged Photographs

Latitude and Longitude stored with the image file Some Camera Models store altitude and directions. Great tool to sort through photographs Information can be added after the fact with some programs. Geo-Tagged Photographs Cameras 90% of all smart phones Apple, Samsung, Motorola, ect. has this built in as an option. Richo G800SE or the G700SE-M Nikon Coolpix AW-Series Olympus ToughTG-1 Canon PowerShot D20 Pentax Optio WG-2 Sony Alpha a77 Digital SLR Samsung WB850F Most are waterproof and shock resistant and durable for field use. Geo-Tagged Photographs-Software GeoJot+ (used to be GPS Photo-Link)

You can analyze your geotagged photos along with other data you have collected within a GIS system, or simply create word or html reports to share the geotagged photos and photo maps between organizations. The photo mapping software saves businesses time, money, and eliminates the errors often introduced during tedious manual data entry. Report data in PDF, ESRI ARCMap, Google KMZ Work and Web formats. Geo-Tagged Photographs-Software ESRI ARCMap 10.1 or greater Youcaneasilyimportgeotaggeddigital photographs into your map and integrate them directly into your existing geodatabase using the new GeoTagged Photos ToPoints tool available in ArcMap 10.1. The tool creates a point feature class in the geodatabase and, as an option, attaches the photos to the point feature class so they can be easily managed along with your other data. You will need at least an ArcGIS for Desktop Standard license and your output feature class must be in an ArcGIS 10 or higher geodatabase. Geo-Tagged Photographs-Software OTHER SOFTWARE

DotSoft will create this feature within Autocad Free Geography Tool will create a TWF file for a geotagged photo that can then be imported as a aerial image. Other websites or computer programs?

Ground Control Points with GNSS

Propeller – AeroPoints

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