Regarding airspace, I believe the courts have already ruled that air space is public as long as it doesn’t interfere with the private ground use or something like that.

On coordinates, every game warden/sheriff I’ve talked to has said whatever On-X, Go Hunt, GAIA etc shows is what they would enforce.

There is a weird corner we found that gives us access to a bunch of public ground surrounded by private. I called the LO and told him I would be going in there to hopefully avoid a conflict. The conversation didn’t go well so I called the warden and sheriff and explained to them that the LO said that both On-X and GAIA was wrong and that his fence corners were correct which would have blocked all access. Both had ON-X and after I sent them a waypoint they said all they had to enforce was On-X and to go ahead.

After a tense first meeting with the LO, we have became pretty good friends and he lets us park just inside his gate and cross ~1 mile of his deeded to access the public which saves us a good climb and ~1/2 mile. If we kill something he lets us drive the road to the public where his road ends.

Originally Posted by T_Inman
Just because I like throwing gas on fire, what are people's thoughts on:

Airspace----how high AGL should private ownership go? Should commercial airlines at 30,000 feet get ROWs to cross private?

How about NAD 83 vs WGS 84, VS other coordinate systems. I believe most federal and state agencies utilize NAD 83 but WGS 84 seems to be the default system used by GPSs. Usually there is only about 36" difference between the systems, but that is enough for disagreement whether someone is trespassing or not. In some areas there can be somewhat substantial differences between coordinates using the different systems. I have seen it vary 20 yards in some places that I am familiar with and I wouldn't doubt it is quite a bit more elsewhere, though I guess my mapping software my actually be at fault vs the datum.

Let's also not forget that coordinates change over time for objects which are fixed in the ground.

GO!