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Why did you decide to support only WGS84 and UTM projections in the WIMS 3 GIS Export and Import functions?

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Why did you decide to support only WGS84 and UTM projections in the WIMS 3 GIS Export and Import functions?

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WGS84 datum and UTM projections are common and standard, and the ESRI tools for converting to other projections are far superior to anything we could program in WIMS 3. It was simply unrealistic to attempt to support a virtually unlimited variety of projections within WIMS 3.