TrigPointing
Posted: 12 March 09 2:33 am
Just throwing an idea out there which has been going around for quite some time... would there be any call for a section of GCA or external site to have trig points/benchmarks for Australia listed as a findable entity? There have been attempts at locationless caches for this purpose but nothing really usable for people wanting to go out and find some trig points in remarkable locations.
I've been getting into actually taking note of trig points recently and its actually quite interesting to locate them. They all have survey marks underneath (small disks sometimes with numerical codes) used for geographic surveys. Trig points are almost always located on top of hills/mountains and so can make interesting finds.
As I said I am just throwing the idea out there to see what people think. There are trig point databases available through Geoscience Australia and I suppose all that would need to be made available is the architecture to access and add logs to the data. GCA would potentially be a suitable host but I don't want to offer up what is not mine to offer so I will not do that... but I would be interested in setting up a portal for the cause and provide web space for the purpose, if needed.
Waymarking.com is ok for this but has very limited exposure in Australia and is really difficult to locate near-by points. There is also a heap of other junk on there that is not worth even considering as a geo-thingy (what some people will do for a smiley... I suppose each to their own). If we could get a site (or even things placed on GCA) that could link into GCA that would be ideal!
Anyways food for thought, let us know what you recon... I'd be interested to hear.
I've been getting into actually taking note of trig points recently and its actually quite interesting to locate them. They all have survey marks underneath (small disks sometimes with numerical codes) used for geographic surveys. Trig points are almost always located on top of hills/mountains and so can make interesting finds.
As I said I am just throwing the idea out there to see what people think. There are trig point databases available through Geoscience Australia and I suppose all that would need to be made available is the architecture to access and add logs to the data. GCA would potentially be a suitable host but I don't want to offer up what is not mine to offer so I will not do that... but I would be interested in setting up a portal for the cause and provide web space for the purpose, if needed.
Waymarking.com is ok for this but has very limited exposure in Australia and is really difficult to locate near-by points. There is also a heap of other junk on there that is not worth even considering as a geo-thingy (what some people will do for a smiley... I suppose each to their own). If we could get a site (or even things placed on GCA) that could link into GCA that would be ideal!
Anyways food for thought, let us know what you recon... I'd be interested to hear.