HI, a curious problem i have only just noticed after more than a decade of tinkering...
 
I have a set of uk and offshore-wide geology data. Ostensibly in Brit Nat Grid projection. and originally in Shape format. If i convert the shape file to mapinfo files in Brit Nat Grid, LL(WGS84) and UTMZone31 projections via FME I get three tab files with upto 100m displacement between them...If i just convert the shape file to BNG and then use Mi to save-as LL(WGS84) and UTMz31 (with new projections)  the data all open with very little displacement....opened individually, allthree layers appear to report correct coords.........incidentally, test FME exports of a tab file to shape files (each with the three projections ) are displacement-free in arc gis...
 
Any offers on what might be happening?....its the first time i have seen such differing output from FME.
 
My esri-phile colleagues simply say its just mapinfo being a 'bit duff' with on the fly projections, but i think there is an issue with how FME(and the UT) is parsing the shapefile... 
 
R


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