Hi Pierre, If you switch from the surveyor's foot to the International foot, you create room for error - which foot are you talking about. If however you convert to metric units, there is less scope for error (unless the surveyor in question cannot identify a factor of 3.3 between two measurements).
Martin Vlietstra -----Original Message----- From: USMA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: 07 February 2020 19:36 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA 1301] No more survey foot I'm at the North Carolina surveyors' conference and someone talked about the abolition of the survey foot. He would prefer going completely metric, as would I, but most surveyors here would rather switch to the international foot. How can we encourage surveying in metric (I mean labeling surveys in meters, we already talk about geoid height, changes to datums, and GPS poles in meters)? Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
