EPSG:9081

Indian foot (1937)

Attributes

Data source: EPSG

Information source: G. Bomford; "The Re-adjustment of the Indian Triangulation"; Survey of India Professional Paper 28; 1939.

Revision date: 2015-11-25

Target unit: metre

Remarks: Indian Foot = 0.99999566 British feet (A.R.Clarke 1865). British foot taken to be 1895 Benoit value of 12/39.370113m. Rounded to 8 decimal places as 0.30479841. Used from Bangladesh to Vietnam. Previously used in India and Pakistan but superseded.

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