Right on. This is a huge gap in the Survey/GPS/GIS and now drone worlds. I have had a really hard time getting people to understand the middle-stance of drones, GPS equipment and GIS and how work on the ground uses ground datum. WGS84 is used to define the boundary of the project then the project is surveyed or layed-out inside of that on a YXZ coordinate system. The localization translates the two on the fly. There has been a hard transition over the last 15 years of mainstream GPS use and surveyors and engineers coexisting in these two realms at the same time. You will very rarely, if ever hear a surveyor or engineer speak in LLH. Now they are because of localizations. That is the transformation.
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