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As long as you aren't a surveyor, that is... that industry has stuck with the previous American standard of 1/39.37 meters, for obvious reasons.
by tadfisher 14y ago
As long as you aren't a surveyor, that is... that industry has stuck with the previous American standard of 1/39.37 meters, for obvious reasons.
- wyclif 14y agoLand surveyor here. I understand the issues in play here deeply. Field calcs, just to name one thing, would be greatly eased by metric. But here's the thing: you can't make an old surveyor think in metric. The way I visualise distance is Imperial. This is deeply ingrained.
- tadfisher 14y agoWell, that, and it would be a monumental task to update historical metes & bounds measurements for most of the eastern states. Or so I assume.
- hosh 14y agoOnly way to retrain is to either have the young generation abandon the old way, or to have the old guard exercise flexibility and neuroplasticity. You can change habits, but it takes effort and commitment. I say that, and I still stick to my Vim and won't use Emacs keybindings :-D
- hessenwolf 14y agoIt wasn't as hard as I expected to make the switch in my mid-twenties. I know that is not the same, but it is not entirely different.