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Dynamic Datums #14

Open ghobona opened 6 years ago

ghobona commented 6 years ago

A datum that consists of coordinates and velocities of control points that reflect the result of local or regional motion induced by a number of causes

cnreediii commented 6 years ago

One little additional piece of information that could impact the datums trend in the Trends Assessment slide. The US is moving to new horizontal and vertical datums in 2022:

https://www.fgdc.gov/topics/new-datums

So at least for the US, there is a near term and potentially disruptive (for thosewho are not prepared) trend WRT datums.