I have a text file with two fields including Longitude and Latitude in degrees. I need to convert this into two fields that contain these values in X and Y. The source and destination coordinate system have to be the same: ESPG: 4236 – WGS 84.
I have tried the AttributeReprojector but it does not seem to work and the new X Attribute and Y attributes seem to be the same values as the original Longitude and Latitude.
Does anyone have an idea of how this could be resolved in FME?
I am showing a sample of the data below:
What I basically need is to get the X and Y corresponding to the Long/Lat in the projection WGS 84.
Best Answer
You cannot have it in the same coordinate system because EPSG 4326 is a degree system. What you sould do instead to transform it to EPSG 3857 which is wgs84 world mercator. See the link: http://spatialreference.org/ref/sr-org/6864/