CoordinateSystemSetter

Assigns a user-specified coordinate system to features, without modifying geometry or coordinates.

Typical Uses

Adding missing coordinate system designations
Adding coordinate system designations when the feature's original format does not support them
Fixing incorrect coordinate system designations

How does it work?

The CoordinateSystemSetter receives any feature and assigns a user-specified coordinate system to it. No geometry is modified, and data is not reprojected.

The coordinate system may be entered explicitly or set to an attribute value, user parameter, or conditional value.

If a feature already has a coordinate system assigned, it will be overwritten.

Examples

Usage Notes

If the coordinate system is not known, this transformer cannot be used to determine it. You will need to assess the units and extents of the coordinates to try to make a manual determination.
Similarly, FME won’t carry out checks to ensure that any coordinate system selected is appropriate to the current data.
You don’t need to use this to tag features before reprojecting them, as long as the reprojection is done via a transformer. Set the coordinate system in the chosen reprojection transformer’s Source Coordinate System parameter.

Working With Coordinate System Transformers

FME inherently supports coordinate system transformations and reprojections.

Coordinate System Support and Reprojection

		Library
AttributeReprojector	Reprojects x and y coordinates stored as attributes from one coordinate system to another.	FME (default) or Esri
CommonLocalReprojector	Reprojects one or more features to a local coordinate system centered on the bounding box containing all features.	FME (default) or Esri
ReprojectAngleCalculator	Converts a given angle from one coordinate system to another.	FME (default) or Esri
ReprojectLengthCalculator	Converts a given length from one coordinate system to another.	FME (default) or Esri
Reprojector	Reprojects feature x and y coordinates from one coordinate system to another.	FME (default) or Esri

		Library (External Links)
CsmapAttributeReprojector	Reprojects x, y, and optionally z coordinates stored as attributes from one coordinate system to another using the CS-MAP library.	CS-Map
CsmapReprojector	Reprojects feature x, y, and optionally z coordinates from one coordinate system to another using the CS-Map library.	CS-Map
EsriReprojector	Reprojects feature coordinates from one coordinate system to another using the Esri reprojection library.	Esri
GridInQuestIIReprojector Great Britain Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland	Reprojects feature coordinates from one coordinate system to another using the Grid InQuestII engine from Ordnance Survey, for use in Great Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland.	Grid InQuestII
GtransAttributeReprojector Sweden	Reprojects coordinates stored as attributes from one coordinate system to another using the Gtrans reprojection engine from the National Land Survey of Sweden (Lantmäteriet).	Gtrans
GtransReprojector Sweden	Reprojects feature coordinates from one coordinate system to another using the Gtrans reprojection engine from the National Land Survey of Sweden (Lantmäteriet).	Gtrans
PROJAttributeReprojector	Reprojects coordinates stored as attributes from one coordinate system to another using the PROJ library.	PROJ
PROJReprojector	Reprojects feature coordinates from one coordinate system to another using the PROJ library.	PROJ
ReframeReprojector Switzerland	Reprojects feature coordinates from one coordinate system to another in Switzerland, using the Reframe library from the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo).	REFRAME

Configuration

Input Ports

Output Ports

Parameters

Editing Transformer Parameters

Using a set of menu options, transformer parameters can be assigned by referencing other elements in the workspace. More advanced functions, such as an advanced editor and an arithmetic editor, are also available in some transformers. To access a menu of these options, click beside the applicable parameter. For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.

Defining Values

There are several ways to define a value for use in a Transformer. The simplest is to simply type in a value or string, which can include functions of various types such as attribute references, math and string functions, and workspace parameters. There are a number of tools and shortcuts that can assist in constructing values, generally available from the drop-down context menu adjacent to the value field.

How to Set Parameter Values

Dialog Options - Tables

Transformers with table-style parameters have additional tools for populating and manipulating values.

Table Tools

Reference

Processing Behavior	Feature-Based
Feature Holding	No
Dependencies	None
Aliases
History

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Examples may contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver and/or the Open Government Licence – Canada.

CoordinateSystemDescriptionConverter	Looks up coordinate system names and definitions between FME’s internal format and common third-party and open source representations, storing the results as an attribute.
CoordinateSystemExtractor	Retrieves the name of the feature's assigned FME coordinate system into an attribute.
CoordinateSystemRemover	Removes the coordinate system from features, without modifying geometry or coordinates.
CoordinateSystemSetter	Assigns a specified coordinate system to features, without modifying geometry or coordinates.
LocalCoordinateSystemSetter	Assigns a specified local coordinate system to features, without modifying geometry or coordinates.

String Functions	These functions manipulate and format strings.
Special Characters	A set of control characters is available in the Text Editor.
Math Functions	Math functions are available in both editors.
Date/Time Functions	Date and time functions are available in the Text Editor.
Math Operators	These operators are available in the Arithmetic Editor.
FME Feature Functions	These return primarily feature-specific values.
FME Parameters	FME and workspace-specific parameters may be used.
Creating and Modifying User Parameters	Create your own editable parameters.

CoordinateSystemSetter

Categories

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