Patent ID: 7979995

Claim:
A method of measuring a track position which is registered relative to a long chord ( 17 ), formed by a laser beam ( 16 ), which serves as reference line of a measuring system ( 9 ) while forming successive measurement sections ( 15 ), wherein a measurement section ( 15 ) is delimited by the start of a measuring run (point A) of a track measuring car ( 1 ) and by the conclusion of the measuring run (point B), after which a satellite measuring trolley ( 12 ) which is stationary locally on the track during the measuring run is moved forward, while being distanced from the track measuring car ( 1 ), for forming an adjoining measuring section ( 15 ) which is finished with the conclusion (point C) of the next following measuring run of the track measuring car ( 1 ), wherein an angle α enclosed by the two long chords ( 17 ) of two successive measurement sections ( 15 ) is measured by an inertial measuring system ( 19 ) registering the spatial coordinates of the long chords ( 17 ), and wherein the individual measurement sections ( 15 ) are joined together with the aid of the respective values of the angle measurement to form a spatial location image.