Hi, everybody, NIST has announced that they will retire the US Survey Foot in two years time as part of an upgrade to the National Spatial Reference System which will relocate several landmarks in terms of latitude, longitude and altitude.
There is an article about this <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.scientificamerican.com%2Froots-of-unity%2Ffarewell-to-the-fractional-foot%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C5f2b1f4ad22c4b4877c208d75a6566cb%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637077263909239686&sdata=3ZVqhlqDEhDWQgsKKMuDvqfen%2BVpQvSxsRc2x7tgLbY%3D&reserved=0> in a blog on the Scientific American website, and an announcement <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nist.gov%2Fpml%2Fus-surveyfoot&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C5f2b1f4ad22c4b4877c208d75a6566cb%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637077263909249674&sdata=awN9WuwG2T6ccaJ9BhxV%2F%2B0PK%2Ft%2FhpDewMf%2BeC%2FTxb4%3D&reserved=0> by the National Institute of Science and Technology. Also, interested parties are invited to comment <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nist.gov%2Fpml%2Fus-surveyfoot%2Fsubmit-comment&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C5f2b1f4ad22c4b4877c208d75a6566cb%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637077263909249674&sdata=5kZTLsMXEogAqhlYWFJrN%2F0LQOY%2ByiivCiPPM9k8uZg%3D&reserved=0> by NIST. The article doesn’t say that the reference system is going to switch to the metric system, so there is still more work to be done in this area. The Scientific American article has a headline saying "Farewell to the Fractional Foot” I’ve never seen the US Survey Foot described this way before. Has anyone else? This has also been posted to Reddit’s Metric forum here: https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FMetric%2Fcomments%2Fdnklrb%2Ffarewell_to_the_fractional_foot_scientific%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C5f2b1f4ad22c4b4877c208d75a6566cb%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637077263909249674&sdata=Aw2ZpRtrZICEvaaagyarY5rHPf03VReigPCuYnW8NBI%3D&reserved=0 Best wishes, Peter Goodyear, Melbourne, Australia e-mail: [email protected]
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