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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Reminder that this change is scheduled to take place on 30 September, please modify your workflows if you access data from the Geoscience Australia data repository.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:red">Clarification on site logs: please note at the moment the site log files will remain in their current/existing location on our old FTP server (ftp.ga.gov.au).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> At Geoscience Australia we are working to ensure that the data from our GNSS networks is easier to find and access and that our stations provide full multi-GNSS support. In order
to do this we are making some changes to our regional data centre.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> Th<span style="color:#1F497D">e</span> planned changes are:<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span>The transition to providing only RINEX version 3 data products for all GA owned and operated GNSS reference stations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span>Moving our FTP access point from <a href="ftp://ftp.ga.gov.au">ftp://ftp.ga.gov.au</a> to
<a href="ftp://ftp.data.gnss.ga.gov.au">ftp://ftp.data.gnss.ga.gov.au</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Introducing a new API access point which will be our preferred access point for all GNSS data (details on how to access can be found at
<a href="https://data.gnss.ga.gov.au/docs/">https://data.gnss.ga.gov.au/docs/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>All RINEX version 2 data files on the new access points have been converted from .Z compression to .gz compression (as approved by the RINEX WG
<a href="https://kb.igs.org/hc/en-us/articles/201096516-IGS-Formats">https://kb.igs.org/hc/en-us/articles/201096516-IGS-Formats</a>).<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The new access points are live now and we recommend that you transition to them as soon as possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Please note that from the
<b>30 September 2020</b> we will no longer be updating the old FTP access server.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">If you have any trouble transitioning to the new access points or have concerns about the timing of this change please contact
<a href="mailto:gnss@ga.gov.au">gnss@ga.gov.au</a>. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Cheers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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