Units for fixed stations

Olly Betts olly@survex.com
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:49:57 +0000


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
> I am trying to fix two stations on a survey. From GPS data I have calculated
> distances in feet. Unfortunatly when I use this information with *fixed, it
> appears to interpret this as meters. I have tried *units dx dy dz feet, but
> this seems to have no effect.

The quantities dx/dy/dz are for cartesian data.  Currently *fix assumes
metres, but that's really only because nobody's wanted anything else.
I'll sort this out, but for now if you've just 2 stations, I'd suggest
converting to metres.

Cheers,
    Olly