Hello Everybody,
Jonathan and I had a successful weekend collecting GPS points over the weekend. I believe that we collected points for all the needed trails and paths at the Otter Pond Club. In the next week or two I will be compiling all of the data points into excel along with other information that is pertinent to each coordinate pair. For the most part aside from the beginning of data collection I collected the data in four columns that consisted of; Degrees North, Degrees West, Error (in feet), and Notes. All of which are quite self explanatory. Aside from this I recorded the weather conditions and dates for both days.
Jonathan Glueckert Reading off the GPS Coordinates
The first day wasn't exactly the most favorable day for collecting points as it was a 40° F with a wind chill and intermittent periods of light rain. At first the light on and off drizzle was tolerable but then it began to rain heavily making it impossible to collect the points in the notebook. To avoid ruining the notebook and becoming sick we decided to call it a day to head back to the cabin early. This set us back in time and made us much more constrained with time on Sunday. Sunday was 30° F, a clear and sunny day. To get back save time we used ATVs to get back to the waypoint at which we stopped collecting points the day before. Moving as efficiently as possible we were able to collect all the points needed by the time the sun had set. Overall we collected just under 800 coordinate pairs. In the next two weeks I'll be compiling the hand written data into excel so that it can be then loaded into ArcMap to map out the trails and paths.
East Network Trail Head
North - 43° 54.929 West - 74° 12.348
West Network Trail Head
North - 43° 54.573 West - 74° 12.952
Otter Pond Way Trail Head
North - 43° 54.718 West - 74° 12.913
East and West Network Trail Intersection
North - 43° 54.345 West - 74° 12.455
Split in Trail to Tree Farming Plot from Network Trail
North - 43° 54.577 West - 74° 12.165
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