Two Right Feet? U.S. Survey Feet vs. International Survey Feet

This video explains the difference between the U.S. survey foot (sft) and the international survey foot (ift) and the importance of this distinction when working with map projections. It will be helpful to surveyors, planners and anyone who needs to convert map coordinates from meters to feet. For more information on geodetic datums, visit http://www.geodesy.noaa.gov/. For more information and a gallery of reusable resources from this video see https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1194 See COMET's MetEd website for hundreds of other geo-science training resources: http://www.meted.ucar.edu.