Foot (unit) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Indian survey foot==== The Indian survey foot is defined as exactly {{val|0.3047996|u=m}},<ref>Schedule to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20091112174359/http://202.54.104.236/intranet/eip/legislation/uploads/THE%20STANDARDS%20OF%20WEIGHTS%20AND%20MEASURES%20ACT%201976.pdf Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976].</ref> presumably derived from a measurement of the previous Indian standard of the yard. The current National Topographic Database of the [[Survey of India]] is based on the metric [[WGS-84]] [[datum (geodesy)|datum]],<ref>[[Survey of India]], [http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/tenders/nationalmappolicy/nationalmappolicy.pdf "National Map Policy β 2005"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331035549/http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/tenders/nationalmappolicy/nationalmappolicy.pdf |date=March 31, 2010 }}.</ref> which is also used by the [[Global Positioning System]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page