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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by zokier on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:27PM (#22206571)
They are using metric:

https://geodesy.noaa.gov/INFO/Policy/files/SPCS2022-Policy.p...

> The meter is the unit of the defining linear parameters for SPCS2022

> SPCS2022 coordinates are published in meters

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by beerandt on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:18AM (#22209209)
83 was also defined in metric, but most states chose to use feet for their actual grid.
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