Survey Unit Converter
Length, area, volume, angle and speed conversions for survey work — including the Indian land units that are fixed by statute, plus slope/gradient and map-scale conversions. Units whose size varies locally, such as bigha, are yours to define: this tool never guesses one.
Type into any one box — the rest follow.
Rise over a run
The rise follows the slope above; edit the rise and the slope follows it.
Slope distance reduced to horizontal
Scale
Distance and area at this scale
Your own local unit
Local units are stored only in this browser, so they are still here next time — and they never leave your computer.
Where the numbers come from. The metric and imperial factors are the internationally defined ones — the international foot is exactly 0.3048 m, the US survey foot exactly 1200/3937 m, the acre exactly 4046.8564224 m². The Indian units listed are those with a fixed statutory definition: a guntha is one fortieth of an acre, a cent one hundredth, a ground 2,400 ft², a kanal 605 yd² and a marla one twentieth of a kanal. Bigha, biswa and katha are deliberately absent — their size changes from state to state and often from district to district, so any single printed value would be wrong for most users. Define yours once in the box above and it is applied throughout the tool.
What the Survey Unit Converter does, and how
What does the BTPL Survey Unit Converter do?
The BTPL Survey Unit Converter converts length, area, volume, angle and speed units used in survey work, including Gunter's chain and link, the Indian land units fixed by statute such as guntha, cent, ground, kanal and marla, and the angular units gon and mil. It also converts slope to gradient and percentage, and map scale to ground distance.
Can it convert bigha or another local land unit?
The BTPL Survey Unit Converter converts bigha and other local land units, but only after you define the unit. Units such as bigha vary in size from one district to another, so the tool asks you to enter the local value once rather than guessing it for you.
Is anything uploaded?
Nothing is uploaded: the BTPL Survey Unit Converter computes everything in your own browser, and the figures you enter are never sent to a server. It keeps working without an internet connection once the page has loaded.
Areas that have to stand up in a record
For land records, acquisition and compensation work, BTPL delivers surveyed areas with documented control, methodology and signed area statements.