# What is the difference between map Units Meter and Decimal degree

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**Created:** [December 6, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324 "2012-12-06T02:36:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/1 "2012-12-06T02:36:35Z")

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&nbsp;when&nbsp;i&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;&nbsp;Map1.MapUnit&nbsp;=&nbsp;GeographyUnit.DecimalDegree;

and&nbsp;when&nbsp;i&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;&nbsp;Map1.MapUnit&nbsp;=&nbsp;GeographyUnit.Meter;

what&nbsp;is&nbsp;the **&nbsp;diffenence&nbsp;between&nbsp;Meter&nbsp;and&nbsp;Decimal&nbsp;degree**.in&nbsp;which&nbsp;situvation&nbsp;i&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;meter&nbsp;and&nbsp;DecimalDegree

_ **shall&nbsp;we&nbsp;find&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map&nbsp;Unit&nbsp;From&nbsp;shape&nbsp;file.whether&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;decimaldegree&nbsp;or&nbsp;Meter.** _

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**Author:** ![Ryan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Ryan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Ryan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/2 "2012-12-06T17:08:36Z")

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Hi&nbsp;rajanikanth,&nbsp;&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;Thanks&nbsp;for&nbsp;your&nbsp;question!&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;The&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;is&nbsp;used&nbsp;to&nbsp;inform&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map&nbsp;Control&nbsp;what&nbsp;unit&nbsp;of&nbsp;measurement&nbsp;your&nbsp;datasources&nbsp;use.&nbsp;This&nbsp;unit&nbsp;of&nbsp;measure&nbsp;varies&nbsp;depending&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;projection&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;data&nbsp;or&nbsp;the&nbsp;unit&nbsp;that&nbsp;was&nbsp;used&nbsp;to&nbsp;originally&nbsp;record&nbsp;the&nbsp;data.&nbsp;For&nbsp;example&nbsp;the&nbsp;OpenStreetMap&nbsp;data&nbsp;provided&nbsp;by&nbsp;our&nbsp;our&nbsp;OpenStreetMap&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Server&nbsp;provides&nbsp;data&nbsp;in&nbsp;Geodetic/WGS84.&nbsp;This&nbsp;projection/datum&nbsp;uses&nbsp;DecimalDegrees&nbsp;for&nbsp;its&nbsp;coordinate&nbsp;system.&nbsp;So&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&nbsp;are&nbsp;loading&nbsp;our&nbsp;OpenStreeetMap&nbsp;data&nbsp;you&nbsp;would&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;set&nbsp;your&nbsp;Map1.MapUnit&nbsp;=&nbsp;GeographyUnit.DecimalDegree.&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;A&nbsp;scenario&nbsp;in&nbsp;which&nbsp;you&nbsp;would&nbsp;set&nbsp;your&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;=&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&nbsp;were&nbsp;loading&nbsp;data&nbsp;that&nbsp;was&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;SphericalMercator&nbsp;projection&nbsp;and&nbsp;this&nbsp;projection&nbsp;uses&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;for&nbsp;its&nbsp;coordinate&nbsp;system.&nbsp;Both&nbsp;GoogleMaps&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bing&nbsp;Maps&nbsp;use&nbsp;this&nbsp;projection&nbsp;so&nbsp;your&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;should&nbsp;be&nbsp;set&nbsp;to&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&nbsp;are&nbsp;loading&nbsp;either&nbsp;of&nbsp;these&nbsp;datasets.&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;The&nbsp;question&nbsp;then&nbsp;raised&nbsp;is&nbsp;what&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;Google/Bing&nbsp;Map&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;background&nbsp;Overlay/Layer&nbsp;and&nbsp;you&nbsp;also&nbsp;have&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;data&nbsp;that&nbsp;uses&nbsp;DecimalDegrees&nbsp;for&nbsp;its&nbsp;coordinate&nbsp;system?&nbsp;Do&nbsp;you&nbsp;set&nbsp;the&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;to&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;or&nbsp;DecimalDegrees?&nbsp;  
&nbsp;There&nbsp;are&nbsp;a&nbsp;couple&nbsp;of&nbsp;options&nbsp;but&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;them&nbsp;involve&nbsp;modifying&nbsp;one&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;datasets&nbsp;you&nbsp;wish&nbsp;to&nbsp;display.&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;My&nbsp;recommendation&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;to&nbsp;reproject&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;data&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Spherical&nbsp;Mercator&nbsp;projection.&nbsp;Using&nbsp;the&nbsp;Proj4&nbsp;library&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;reprojection&nbsp;your&nbsp;DecimalDegree&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;data&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Spherical&nbsp;Mercator&nbsp;projection&nbsp;‘on-the-fly’,&nbsp;or&nbsp;use&nbsp;the&nbsp;ShapeFileFeatureLayer.SaveToProjection()&nbsp;method&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;reprojected&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;that&nbsp;contains&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;data&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;original&nbsp;shapefile.&nbsp;  
&nbsp;With&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;data&nbsp;now&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;projection&nbsp;as&nbsp;Google/Bing&nbsp;Maps&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;safely&nbsp;set&nbsp;the&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map&nbsp;to&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;as&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;data&nbsp;now&nbsp;utilzes&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;as&nbsp;the&nbsp;measurement&nbsp;unit.&nbsp;  
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&nbsp;If&nbsp;you&nbsp;have&nbsp;locally&nbsp;stored&nbsp;raster&nbsp;images&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;wish&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;for&nbsp;a&nbsp;background&nbsp;map&nbsp;you&nbsp;could&nbsp;use&nbsp;our&nbsp;recently&nbsp;release&nbsp;Raster&nbsp;Reprojection&nbsp;methods&nbsp;to&nbsp;reproject&nbsp;the&nbsp;images&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;projection&nbsp;as&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;data.&nbsp;So&nbsp;if&nbsp;your&nbsp;raster&nbsp;background&nbsp;images&nbsp;were&nbsp;SphericalMercator/Meters&nbsp;you&nbsp;could&nbsp;project&nbsp;them&nbsp;to&nbsp;Geodetic/DecimalDegrees,&nbsp;which&nbsp;is&nbsp;projection/coordinate&nbsp;system&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefiles.&nbsp;In&nbsp;this&nbsp;case&nbsp;you&nbsp;would&nbsp;set&nbsp;your&nbsp;MapUnit&nbsp;=&nbsp;DecimalDegrees&nbsp;as&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;data&nbsp;now&nbsp;uses&nbsp;DecimalDegrees&nbsp;for&nbsp;its&nbsp;measurement&nbsp;system.

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**Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/3 "2012-12-06T23:23:51Z")

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heloo&nbsp;ryan

Thanks&nbsp;for&nbsp;your&nbsp;clear&nbsp;explaination.how&nbsp;to&nbsp;find&nbsp;wheher&nbsp;the&nbsp;shape&nbsp;file&nbsp;unit&nbsp;is&nbsp; **DEcimaldegree&nbsp;or&nbsp;Meter.can&nbsp;we&nbsp;find&nbsp;the&nbsp;shape&nbsp;file&nbsp;geography&nbsp;unit&nbsp;Based&nbsp;on&nbsp;Shape&nbsp;file.**

why&nbsp;means&nbsp;for&nbsp;my&nbsp;application&nbsp;my&nbsp;clients&nbsp;provide&nbsp;shape&nbsp;layers.accordind&nbsp;to&nbsp;those&nbsp;shape&nbsp;layers&nbsp;i&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;load&nbsp;the&nbsp;map.so&nbsp;if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;decimal&nbsp;degree&nbsp;means&nbsp;Meter&nbsp;Shape&nbsp;files&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;loading.if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;meter&nbsp;means&nbsp;Decimal&nbsp;degree&nbsp;files&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;loading.so **&nbsp;my&nbsp;question&nbsp;is&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;shape&nbsp;file&nbsp;can&nbsp;we&nbsp;find&nbsp;the&nbsp;geography&nbsp;unit.so&nbsp;that&nbsp;we&nbsp;can&nbsp;mention&nbsp;correct&nbsp;geography&nbsp;unit.**

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/4 "2012-12-10T00:40:47Z")

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&nbsp;Please&nbsp;give&nbsp;me&nbsp;a&nbsp;answer&nbsp;&nbsp;whether&nbsp;we&nbsp;can&nbsp;find&nbsp; **geography&nbsp;unit&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;shape&nbsp;file&nbsp;whether&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;decomaldegree&nbsp;or&nbsp;Meter**

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**Author:** ![Ryan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Ryan](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Ryan)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/5 "2012-12-10T16:09:38Z")

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rajanikanth,

One&nbsp;way&nbsp;you&nbsp;could&nbsp;find&nbsp;out&nbsp;the&nbsp;unit&nbsp;system&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;is&nbsp;to&nbsp;parse&nbsp;the&nbsp;.prj&nbsp;file&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;included&nbsp;with&nbsp;many&nbsp;shapfiles.&nbsp;This&nbsp;file&nbsp;should&nbsp;contain&nbsp;the&nbsp;projection,&nbsp;datum,&nbsp;unit&nbsp;system&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;information&nbsp;about&nbsp;your&nbsp;shapefile.  
  
A&nbsp;method&nbsp;that&nbsp;makes&nbsp;it&nbsp;easy&nbsp;to&nbsp;convert&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;data&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;projection&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;ConvertPrjToProj4()&nbsp;method.&nbsp;With&nbsp;this&nbsp;method&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;pass&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;path&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;shapefile's&nbsp;.prj&nbsp;file&nbsp;and&nbsp;Map&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;will&nbsp;convert&nbsp;it&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;Proj4&nbsp;string&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;use&nbsp;as&nbsp;an&nbsp;InternalProjectionParametersString&nbsp;for&nbsp;your&nbsp;Proj4&nbsp;object.

Check&nbsp;out&nbsp;the&nbsp;following&nbsp;sample&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Wiki&nbsp;demonstrating&nbsp;the&nbsp;ConvertPrjToProj4()&nbsp;method&nbsp;here:&nbsp;[wiki.thinkgeo.com/wiki/Map\_S...g\_Prj\_File](http://wiki.thinkgeo.com/wiki/Map_Suite_Desktop_Edition_All_Samples#Projection_by_Analyzing_Prj_File)

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/6 "2012-12-11T00:48:02Z")

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&nbsp;thanks&nbsp;Ryan,

when&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;geography&nbsp;Unit&nbsp;as&nbsp;meter&nbsp;iam&nbsp;getting&nbsp;different&nbsp;latitudue&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;values(915362.34567,852182.34567)&nbsp;when&nbsp;compare&nbsp;with&nbsp;decimaldegree&nbsp;latitude&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;valyes(-84.868668,31.234567).why&nbsp;it&nbsp;shows&nbsp;different&nbsp;lat&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;values.so&nbsp;iam&nbsp;not&nbsp;able&nbsp;add&nbsp;markers&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map.if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;decimal&nbsp;degree&nbsp;at&nbsp;that&nbsp;time&nbsp;the&nbsp;markers&nbsp;are&nbsp;added&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;lat&nbsp;and&nbsp;long&nbsp;values.if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;Meter&nbsp;Iam&nbsp;not&nbsp;able&nbsp;&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;markers&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map.Here&nbsp;the&nbsp;map&nbsp;is&nbsp;loading&nbsp;but&nbsp;markers&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;showing.based&nbsp;on&nbsp;latitude&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;values&nbsp;iam&nbsp;adding&nbsp;marker&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;map.so&nbsp;if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;meter&nbsp;means&nbsp;based&nbsp;lat&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;values&nbsp;markers&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;displaying&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;map.so&nbsp;how&nbsp;to&nbsp;show&nbsp;markers&nbsp;on&nbsp;Map&nbsp;when&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;mapunit&nbsp;as&nbsp;Meter.for&nbsp;ex&nbsp;iam&nbsp;having&nbsp;a&nbsp;location&nbsp;of&nbsp;(Dollar,Alabama,Us)&nbsp;for&nbsp;this&nbsp;iam&nbsp;getting&nbsp;lat&nbsp;and&nbsp;longitude&nbsp;values.when&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;decimal&nbsp;degree&nbsp;the&nbsp;marker&nbsp;shows&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;map.if&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;meter&nbsp;then&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;not&nbsp;showing&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/7 "2012-12-12T05:00:35Z")

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&nbsp;Helo&nbsp;Ryan,

please&nbsp;give&nbsp;me&nbsp;reply&nbsp;for&nbsp;this&nbsp;one.when&nbsp;i&nbsp;use&nbsp;map&nbsp;unit&nbsp;meter&nbsp;iam&nbsp;not&nbsp;able&nbsp;display&nbsp;markers&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;map.is&nbsp;there&nbsp;any&nbsp;way&nbsp;to&nbsp;convert&nbsp;all&nbsp;map&nbsp;unit&nbsp;shape&nbsp;files&nbsp;to&nbsp;decimal&nbsp;degree.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/8 "2012-12-12T11:39:47Z")

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Hi&nbsp;rajanikanth,

If&nbsp;you&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;specify&nbsp;your&nbsp;Markers'&nbsp;locations&nbsp;in&nbsp;Decimal&nbsp;Degree&nbsp;and&nbsp;have&nbsp;them&nbsp;display&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;proper&nbsp;locations&nbsp;on&nbsp;a&nbsp;'Meters'&nbsp;Map&nbsp;you&nbsp;will&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;convert&nbsp;your&nbsp;Decimal&nbsp;Degree&nbsp;-&nbsp;Lat/Long&nbsp;values&nbsp;to&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;-&nbsp;Lat/Long&nbsp;values.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can&nbsp;do&nbsp;this&nbsp;using&nbsp;the&nbsp;Proj4&nbsp;class&nbsp;as&nbsp;shown&nbsp;below:

`PointShape myPointShape = new PointShape(-84.868668,31.234567);Proj4Projection proj4Projection = new Proj4Projection();                proj4Projection.InternalProjectionParametersString = Proj4Projection.GetWgs84ParametersString();                proj4Projection.ExternalProjectionParametersString = Proj4Projection.GetGoogleMapParametersString();proj4Projection.Open();PointShape newPointShape = (PointShape)proj4Projection.ConvertToExternalProjection(myPointShape);Marker testMarker = new Marker(newPointShape.X,newPointShape.Y);`&nbsp;

You&nbsp;can&nbsp;convert&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;meters-based&nbsp;shapefiles&nbsp;to&nbsp;DecimalDegrees&nbsp;by&nbsp;using&nbsp;the&nbsp;Proj4&nbsp;class:

`shapefileConversionProjection.InternalProjectionParametersString = Proj4Projection.GetGoogleMapParametersString();shapefileConversionProjection.ExternalProjectionParametersString = Proj4Projection.GetWgs84ParametersString();shapefileConversionProjection.Open();worldLayer.FeatureSource.Projection = shapefileConversionProjection;`

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/9 "2012-12-13T00:29:37Z")

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&nbsp;even&nbsp;here&nbsp;also&nbsp;iam&nbsp;not&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;add&nbsp;markers&nbsp;of&nbsp;Meter&nbsp;lat&nbsp;and&nbsp;Longitude&nbsp;values.&nbsp;only&nbsp;&nbsp;converted&nbsp;decimla&nbsp;degree&nbsp;Lat/Long&nbsp;value&nbsp;&nbsp;markers&nbsp;are&nbsp;showing&nbsp;in&nbsp;Map.how&nbsp;to&nbsp;show&nbsp;both&nbsp;Meter&nbsp;and&nbsp;decimal&nbsp;degree&nbsp;markers&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Map.

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-map-units-meter-and-decimal-degree/6324/10 "2012-12-13T10:47:35Z")

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Are&nbsp;you&nbsp;using&nbsp;the&nbsp;ConvertToExternalProjection()&nbsp;on&nbsp;points&nbsp;that&nbsp;use&nbsp; **Meter** &nbsp;-&nbsp;Lat/Long&nbsp;values?  
  
You&nbsp;should&nbsp;only&nbsp;use&nbsp;this&nbsp;method&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;form&nbsp;that&nbsp;I&nbsp;supplied&nbsp;above&nbsp;if&nbsp;your&nbsp;source&nbsp;points&nbsp;are&nbsp;in&nbsp; **Decimal&nbsp;Degrees**.

If&nbsp;your&nbsp;user&nbsp;specifies&nbsp;a&nbsp;point&nbsp;using&nbsp; **Meters&nbsp;** then&nbsp;you&nbsp;_do&nbsp;not&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;convert&nbsp;it_;&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;just&nbsp;add&nbsp;it&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;PointShape&nbsp;using&nbsp;the&nbsp;Meters&nbsp;Lat/Long&nbsp;values.
