[Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - Documenting feet as an an optional elevation unit

[Greg Troxel]

Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> writes:

> Vào lúc 19:50 2024-01-27, Brian M. Sperlongano đã viết:
>> Uh so I did the math, and unless I've got this wrong, the difference
>> between survey feet and international feet for tagging, let's say,
>> Mount Everest, is less than seven one-hundredths of an inch.  So I'm
>> really not even sure why we're discussing it beyond the fact that
>> we're all nerds about this sort of thing.
>
> You got me. :-) The actual proposal doesn't mention the foot's two
> definitions at all, and so far I'm planning to keep it that way.

I think it's important to be definitionally correct, even if it doesn't
really matter.  It's a slippery slope, and pretty soon \pi is 3.