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Convert Imperial to Metric
I am on my first Imperial project (our poor US friends...), and we need to convert to metric. Are there any resources I can get to, without having to scrape the brains of my survey consultants? It's in California, US.
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by 'resources' do you mean within MM or outside?
by 'convert' do you mean the project uses are using PLSS coords? If so you can look at
https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/60562-public-land-survey-system-plss-to-utm/
I had to use this +5 yr ago for Colorado to convert tenements, polygons etc to UTM . Works ok.
MM does have a Coord System Convertor and uses EPSG or Local - have you tried that?
other GIS programs like MapInfo and QGIS may be a an option as well to convert local XY feet/yard grids to metric EPSG
OK, thanks. I'll try that link. I seem to be missing some of those options in MM for conversions, so I think I need to update my files. I remember doing it a while ago, so should be able to cope with that part. I have various data sets, most in MM now. I need to check the originating data but assuming PLSS for most, local grid for some. I'll come back to you if I have more issues.
Found the problem. It was a glitch in my setup. Thanks.