My free shape file from Ohio shows X and Y with this format? What transformer will change it to decimal?

Hi @Bonnie Nohalty​,

The Shape file appears to be in a State Plane coordinate system, and you appear to need your coordinates in latitude and longitude.

The Reprojector transformer will be able to convert between the two coordinate systems. If the Shape file set includes a .prj file, FME will automatically read the source coordinate system, and you need only set the Destination Coordinate System in the Reprojector to LL83 to get lat/long coordinates.

If your Shape file set does not include a .prj file, then you will need to set the Source Coordinate System in the Reprojector to the appropriate Ohio State Plane coordinate system.

I started with that. But each time I use the Reprojector, it doesn't recaluclate the geometry it remains in that state plane grid type format al-be-it, it does reproject it to LL83. I used Attribute Manager to create a new column Lat and Lon and tried to get the LL83 to populate it, but that didn't work either. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've got to missing something. ESRI software uses a Calculate Geometry on a Lat/Lon column - I was looking for FME to have something similar. It seems like an easy ask of FME to do, I just have no clue what it needs. Thoughts?

The Reprojector works only on the feature geometry, but you can use the AttributeReprojector to reproject attribute values. This transformer requires that you set the source coordinate system, but you can use a CoordinateSystemExtractor transformer before it to extract the coordinate system from the Shape file into an attribute, then choose that attribute as the source coordinate in the AttributeReprojector.

Oh my goodness. Thank you!