TSRC's Role
What We're Doing to Prepare Texas for NSRS Modernization
NSRS modernization isn't something that happens to Texas on a single day, it's a phased process involving federal agencies, state agencies, practitioners, and the vendors who build the tools everyone relies on. TSRC's job is to coordinate all of it, so that when Texas does adopt the modernized system, the state's surveying and geospatial community is ready.
TSRC Is Your Liaison
TSRC coordinates directly with the organizations shaping this transition, including but not limited to:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (TBPELS)
Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS)
Surveying and geospatial equipment vendors
Surveying and geospatial software vendors
Instead of tracking multiple organizations yourself, TSRC serves as your single point of contact, translating federal and vendor-level activity into what it actually means for practitioners on the ground in Texas.
What TSRC Is Doing Right Now
Internal Modernization
TSRC rebranded with a new center logo and redesigned its website to make guidance documents and tools easier to find. TSRC also established the official publication site for adopted Texas Coordinate System definitions under Texas Natural Resources Code § 21.0711. See the Texas Coordinate Systems page on TSRC's website.
Training and Outreach
TSRC is hosting webinars, developing guidance documents and resources like this one, and presenting at conferences. If your organization would like a dedicated session, contact TSRC to schedule one.
Monitoring Beta
TSRC is tracking NGS beta releases, testing modernized tools against known Texas control marks, and building the working knowledge needed to guide practitioners through the new system.
Agency Coordination
TSRC is engaging with city, county, and state agencies to confirm their requirements, workflows, and tools, and tracking adoption readiness across the state to help inform Texas's eventual transition date.
Coordinating Vendors
TSRC is engaging directly with equipment and software vendors to confirm they're prepared to support the modernized NSRS datums and tools, so practitioners can trust their equipment and software from day one of adoption.
TSRC's Roadmap
Working Now
Spreading the word that new datums are coming, coordinating with vendors and agencies, forming working groups, and developing guidance documents and training.
Federal Adoption
Once NGS formally announces federal adoption, TSRC will evaluate Texas's readiness, develop a Texas-specific transition framework, and prepare the legal definition for the Texas State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 (Texas SPCS2022).
Texas Adoption and Beyond
Texas's transition date will be published with advance notice. TSRC will coordinate practitioner and agency readiness, publish the legal definition for SPCS2022 at transition, and maintain the state's spatial reference system going forward.
Ongoing
TSRC will continue providing training and outreach, tools and resources, basic and applied research on datums, and geodetic data collection for state mapping, the same core mission TSRC has always had, now supporting Texas through this transition.