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all distance parameters should be in meters/miles, not other ground units like f

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  • May 15, 2018
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Original Title was: all distance parameters should be in meters/miles, not other ground units like fraction of a degree in case of lat/long system


ground units inconvenient as transformer parameters or output in case of lat/long systems.

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  • nikolai
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  • May 15, 2018

Geographic Bufferer is a good start to make FME behave like other GIS packages. All transformers using distance as parameter or outputting distance values should have an option of easily perceptable distance, like meter, not 0.00001 of a degree

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