<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">The legal definition of a foot is of course 0.348 m.<br><br>"Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 metres'.<br><br>Phil (trigpoint)</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 28 January 2024 18:57:45 GMT, Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">Vào lúc 04:08 2024-01-28, Greg Troxel đã viết:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> writes:<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">Vào lúc 19:50 2024-01-27, Brian M. Sperlongano đã viết:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">Uh so I did the math, and unless I've got this wrong, the difference<br>between survey feet and international feet for tagging, let's say,<br>Mount Everest, is less than seven one-hundredths of an inch. So I'm<br>really not even sure why we're discussing it beyond the fact that<br>we're all nerds about this sort of thing.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>You got me. :-) The actual proposal doesn't mention the foot's two<br>definitions at all, and so far I'm planning to keep it that way.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>I think it's important to be definitionally correct, even if it doesn't<br>really matter. It's a slippery slope, and pretty soon \pi is 3.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>Poor Indiana. ;-) The definition of the foot would apply to the ' and ft abbreviations in every context, not just the ele=* key, so I'd suggest considering it separately, probably without the formality of a vote. The main unit symbol listing has come together more informally over the years. [1]<br><br>Sooner or later, OpenHistoricalMap will have a lot of fun with this issue...<br><br>[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features/Units">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features/Units</a><br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>