Good morning,
It is the case that I had to respecify the Source and Destination
coordinate systems when I copied and pasted the transformers into the
Spatial ETL tool. I still got the failure that I reported below,
though. However, I did eventually find a solution for that
problem---it seems that when the "Edit Reprojector Parameters" box is
opened, one must set the Source and Destination coordinate systems
before pressing 'OK' to close the box. This is true even if the Source
and Destination coordinate systems are already correctly set in the
box and someone just opens the box to look at the parameters (without
changing anything).
The other problem I encountered with Reprojector is still unresolved,
which is: occasionally, clicking the "..." button (in the "Edit
Reprojector Parameters" box) to browse for Source or Destination
Coordinate Systems does nothing, preventing me from selecting a
coordinate system.
Regards,
J.D.
--- In [email protected], "mark2atsafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm thinking that reprojection is one of those bits of functionality
> that is going to cause problems when you do this copy + paste
> technique. Notice that when you set a coordinate system in a Data
> Interop tool it opens the ArcGIS coordinate system dialog rather than
> the FME one, and therefore - although I can't say this for definite -
> the two will be incompatible.
>
> It could also, of course, be simply that the two versions don't match
> to the extent that ArcGIS isn't new enough to contain the coordsys
> that FME is using.
>
> I'm out of the office today, but when I'm back on Tuesday will ask an
> interop expert to find out the truth on this issue,
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist
> Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com
> Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access
>
> --- In [email protected], "jamison_leach" <hemsidan@> wrote:
> >
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > I was asking a few days back about exporting FME workspaces into
> > the ArcGIS DataInteroperability extension. By the copy-and-paste
method,
> > I largely succeeded, and my FME Workbench tools can run as Spatial ETL
> > Tools. I have encountered two problems though, with the Reprojector
> > transformer. It looks to me like Reprojector is actually accessing the
> > ArcGIS list of projections (rather than the FME list). That by
itself is
> > not necessarily a problem. The problem arises when I run the tool and
> > translation fails due to a projection problem. Here is a snippet
of the
> > log for the tool that includes reprojecting a shapefile from
> > "GCS_North_American_1983" to "USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic":
> >
> > SFCOM Reader: Unable to import OGC WKT coordinate system, format is
> > corrupt.
> > Coordinate system named ESRI does not exist.
> > No definition was found for coordinate system `ESRI'
> > Unable to retrieve Coordinate System Parameters
> > Unable to convert ESRI WKT coordinate system `PROJCS[' to an FME
> > coordinate system
> > The coordinate system for the features will not be set.
> > Reproject: Unable to convert ESRI WKT coordinate system
> > 'ESRIWKT|GCS_North_American_1983|PROJCS[' into an FME coordinate
system.
> > Reproject: Unable to convert ESRI WKT coordinate system
> > 'ESRIWKT|GCS_North_American_1983|PROJCS[' into an FME coordinate
system.
> > FME Session Duration: 2.2 seconds.
> >
> > t: Unable to convert ESRI WKT coordinate system
> > 'ESRIWKT|GCS_North_American_1983|PROJCS[' into an FME coordinate
system.
> > Program Terminating
> >
> > Translation FAILED.
> >
> >
> >
> > Several other times, I have opened the "Parameters" box for the
> > Reprojector transformer and clicked the "..." button to browse for
> > Source or Destination Coordinate Systems, and nothing happens (I can't
> > pick a coordinate system). I've always eventually gotten the "..."
> > button to work eventually, but it has taken several tries before.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered these problems? I've not had any
> > problems with Reprojector in FME2006GB.
> >
> > Regards,
> > J.D. Leach
> > U.S. Census Bureau
> >
>
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