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Data qualityCase 13 of 14

Wrong CRS assumed

Coordinates delivered in a projected or regional CRS (e.g. State Plane, UTM) but consumed as if they were WGS84 lat/lng place points thousands of kilometers off with no error thrown.

Class
Case to account for
Affects
2 conversions
01

Detection

Coordinate magnitudes inconsistent with WGS84 range (e.g. values in the millions typical of a projected CRS false easting/northing).

02

Mitigation

01
Require and validate an explicit CRS tag on every geometry source
02
Reproject to WGS84 (EPSG:4326) before any H3 indexing step
03

Affected conversions

PointH3
OPEN
PolygonH3 (intersects)
OPEN