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Article: NGS publishes state plane coordinates in feet.(National Geodetic Survey)
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- May 1, 2006
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As of Feb. 22, 2006, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) began publishing State Plane Coordinates (SPCs) in feet on both the conventional NGS geodetic control data sheet and the OPUS extended output data sheet.
This was done in accordance with the NGS goal to provide products and services that are of the most use to the public. Also, it is intended to reduce the problems often caused by data users converting metric values with inappropriate conversion values.
NGS publishes both meters and either International or U.S. Survey feet; the values in feet have the appropriate metadata identified as either "iFT" for International Feet or "sFT" for U.S. Survey ...
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