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I finally finished the pain in the butt plant coordinates project. I had to use for different programs all running at once to decipher the coordinates.

First I had to determine, were they in X, Y, Z format or Y, X, Z and it is a major difference. X and Y are the position going north south or east west. The Z is always elevation, but is was it done in feet or meters?

To add to the fun, they did not use the target names we had asked for. We sent them a map and asked for targets in 9 approximate locations. They have to determine where they have access to get to, and is it open to the sky. We numbered them targts 01 to 09.

So the target we wanted as target 01 was sent to us as 602. The target we asked for at location 02 was 610. Not one number was even remotely the same. Once I figured out all of that, and started finding the targets the map comes together. After three targets are identified by just panning around on the image, the others come into a triangulation and are somewhat centered. Then I zero into them within an inch. What a pain. We are for sure going to add a brain pain fee for future projects they send us. And the real kicker, is they are always 90 days or so to pay the invoice.
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