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Output data not reading as specified EPSG code

  • 14 October 2021
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Hi all,

 

I am generating a workspace for a client. A requirement is that output data should be in EPSG:29902.

 

The writers have been defined to use 29902 as the output coordinate system. However, when I open the datasets in QGIS or Arc, the data is reporting as coordinate system EPSG:29903.

 

Is there a way to correct this behaviour? Attached is a simple workbench with a creator transformer and a writer set to use 29902. But the output generated is 29903.

 

Many thanks


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Which EPSG code shows the FME Data Inspector? Maybe FME is doing the job OK.

 

Also, check the definition of the EPSG:29903: https://epsg.io/29903

There it says the PESG:29902 was replaced by the EPSG:29903 in 1975.

Which EPSG code shows the FME Data Inspector? Maybe FME is doing the job OK.

 

Also, check the definition of the EPSG:29903: https://epsg.io/29903

There it says the PESG:29902 was replaced by the EPSG:29903 in 1975.

Hi oscard. Hmm, you are right. FME inspector is showing EPSG:29902 and so is the coordinate system extractor transformer

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Hi oscard. Hmm, you are right. FME inspector is showing EPSG:29902 and so is the coordinate system extractor transformer

If the EPSG:29902 is obsolete, that could be the reason QGis shows the other one. According to the definition, both coordinate systems are similar.

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Hi oscard. Hmm, you are right. FME inspector is showing EPSG:29902 and so is the coordinate system extractor transformer

You could try this: get two outputs. One with EPSG:29902 and the other one with 29903. Open both of them with FME Data Inspector and compare the coordinates of the same vertex in both outputs.

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