Bankstown EDM Testline - PM58055 Bass Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By Team MavEtJu on 24-Apr-16. Waypoint TP7339

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S33° 53.895' E151° 0.310' (WGS 84)
	56H 315547E 6247334N (UTM)
Elevation:	46 m
Local Government Area:	Canterbury-Bankstown

Map

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Description

Bankstown EDM Testline - PM58055

The Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2012 requires surveyors to verify their Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM) equipment in relation to the State Primary Standard of measurement, in the form of pillared testlines or baselines, at least once each year and immediately after service and repair.

The Bankstown EDM Testline is a set of four trig points: PM58055-PM58058. The distance between the first and last one is 605.010 meters +/- 0.5 mm.

This information was obtained from http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/surveying/surveying_services/edm_baseline_certificates.

To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the trig point, along with your GPS receiver and/or yourself. Long distance / telephoto type pictures are against the spirit of this cache. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.

Logs

26-Jan-24

KBUGY

Found on Australia Day

Rated: for Overall Experience

30-Jul-22

Crux224

A quick find this morning while in the area.

Rated: for Overall Experience

17-Feb-20

Kittykatch

Picked up on a visit to Sydney. TFTT

06-Nov-19

HansJJ

Was this way today so taking the short detour to complete these 4 off trigs in a nice park – parked in carpark & did the walk to this 1 across oval – many thanks Clan Griffin

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Jul-19

2y'stassies

There is a series of four trig points which make ujp the Bankstown EDM testline. However at present only two are accessible because the remaining two are behind fencing which appears to be part of a housing project. We were wondering if the two hidden trig points would survive the development work. The first in teh line was located very easily. The required photos have been added to the Gallery. Thanks for the cache.

05-Dec-18

Nessell

Out on a caching run today around the Bankstown Area and decided to focus on trig points. This was the first of seven trig finds this morning for the journey or destination game.

Decided to target this nice cluster of trigs on the Bankstown testline. I parked in Buist St and was pleasently surprised at the nice park that greeted me and the well maintained trig standing proud on the egde of the football(?) field. This one has had a facelift since the last find. It looks like he has a new coat of white paint and his top hat Is absent. I have photographed the top to show you what I mean. Interesting to read what these are used for and just how precise the distances between these pillars are measured to. Last certification has the measurement uncertainty at a fraction of a millimetre! Snapped the required photos and now iff to find the next one, hope they are all this easy!

Thanks for the cache Geocaching Australia
GCA Find #168 Clan Cerberus

Hoping this find will move me one step closer to the destination, be that either the blue tile or my goal of 100 trigs!

“It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.“ Find # 6 Journey or Destination games.

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-May-18

rogerw3

Lovely park, an easy find.

20-Feb-18

minniek

Headed to Sydney for a Dr appt and left enough time to do some caching along the way. First stop was a couple of trigs on this test line.

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Jul-17

Goldenwattle

Driving into the city, over the Harbour Bridge and back again, caching and finding trigs. The second of four trigs in this parkland. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Jul-17

Lazarus_68

Easy find!

09-Jun-17

Team MavEtJu

Quick run from Lidcombe to Bankstown and I found these ones!

08-Apr-17

Wilbert67

4 quick ones in a row, however it is hard to see the next one from each trig!
TFTC Wilbert67

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-Feb-17

alnic39

I do like a test line of trigs. Number 4

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Feb-17

LuckyL10n

#GA1323 - 18:15; Day 3 of a caching mission in and around Sydney with Sol de lune. We had landed in Bankstown and our second testline for the day. This one was a bit shorter than the earlier one in Blacktown, but we adopted a similar approach, parked at one end and wandered along. TFTC Geocaching Australia Very Happy

02-Feb-17

Sol de lune

Grabbed with LuckyL10n on our last day in Sydney grabbing a few caches. Started down this end and walked back down the to old highway....

28-Aug-16

Greenbeetle Nut

Found number four in the Bankstown test line at the edge of Walshaw Park.

Rated: for Overall Experience

18-May-16

ziggiau

Lucky last, and all alone except for the surveying equipment. An easy walk to grab the whole set and even better that they were actually being used!

07-May-16

phlphotos

Came to the area and found the testline started from the middle the got to the end and worked my way to the beginning. Thanks for bringing me here got to see a junior soccer game on at the park while taking this photo.

Rated: for Overall Experience