in a state half a country away, I wanted to use CORS data for my GPS work.

But the CORS was often far, far away and sometimes not so very dependable.

I said to myself, "Self, this is not a good way to feed your family. It is frustrating to work all day and then have to do the work again."

So I called one of those nasty sales pukes who always wanted me to spend my money. I purchased a GPS receiver that let me be in charge of the power switch and the recording interval. I called my new GPS receiver T-CORS because it was like a temporary CORS. My T-CORS followed me everywhere.

With my very own T-CORS I could work all day and even if I could only get a few hours of data from a CORS half a state away I could still compute a good position for my T-CORS.

I even told the nasty sales puke that he helped me feed my family even though I had to bust my hump to make my payments on my tools. He gave me an idea that I began to promote among others who had felt the power of GPS.

We need more CORS!

It would take time, and require patience. But the CORS did, in time, multiply and spread throughout the state and the several states.

In time the world would be connected by a network of GPS receivers.

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In my imagination there is a CORS in every county, parish, and province in the land with many that are sponsored by surveyors in private practice.

Then none will have to say there was no CORS for me today.