One thing I want to mention is the looming threat to lose our GPS that we rely on so dearly. Please check out the link below. Short story is that a company LightSquared is on the verge of putting all our our survey grade GPS outta whack....how? INTERFERENCE. Simply put. We rely on having a good signal for good results (yes, along with a few other good things) Now imagine our GPS couldn't pick up a signal for initialization or get connected to a base station. That would be a bummer. We expect that every now and then which then usually follows up with a call to tech. support. But imagine if all that expensive equipment just won't pick up a signal anymore....that would be a big time bummer. Don't think we want to go back to the way we "used to do" it in this day and economy.
I invite you to check out the following website. Read it for yourself, make your own decision.
Save Our GPS at http://www.saveourgps.org/
We didn't get on the GIS train when it came, I hate to see us get passed up again.
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