Patent 7558678 was granted and assigned to R.A. Smith National on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different origins and/or which surveys which projected in different coordinate systems.