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No audio available for this content. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) recently announced two new items related to the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). First, it announced that ...

Accuracy—The closeness of an estimated value (that is measured or computed) to a standard or accepted (true) value of a particular quantity. Strictly, it only applies to absolute physical quantities, ...