CRS Sanity Check
When To Use
- •Use before any overlay, buffer, distance, or area operation.
- •Use when data comes from multiple providers or mixed formats.
- •Use when coordinate metadata is missing or contradictory.
Workflow
- •Inspect declared CRS for every input layer.
- •Confirm axis order and unit assumptions.
- •Identify a shared analysis CRS and justify it.
- •Reproject inputs only once to the selected CRS.
- •Validate extents and spot-check coordinates after reprojection.
Guardrails
- •Do not compute distance or area in geographic degrees unless explicitly intended.
- •Do not proceed when CRS metadata is absent without an explicit fallback strategy.
- •Record original CRS and transformation choices in the final output notes.