Getting Off on the Wrong Foot The long-overdue sunset of an outdated conversion The article was first published on amerisurv.com . BRIAN FISHER, PS 11.29.2020 Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT) definitions. Dr. Michael Dennis, PS, PE, the project manager for NGS’s 2022 State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS) project originally asked for stories about how SFT in an IFT state caused problems. This story was originally shared anonymously, and most of the details were left out, but because of public interest and so many follow up questions about how such a thing was technically possible we decided to tell more details about what happened. As with many stories of disaster, there isn’t exactly a single culprit, but more over a culture of behavior and sequence of several events that results finally in calamity. Some of them, in hindsight, are obvious, but please consider that...