Avoid Turf.js unit and antimeridian bugs when computing distances, buffers, and bounding boxes
domain: turfjs.org · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Always pass an explicit units option to distance/buffer/along-style functions — the default unit is kilometers, not meters
Before running turf.bbox or turf.buffer on a feature that crosses the antimeridian, split the geometry at +/-180 longitude yourself
Expect turf.bbox on antimeridian-crossing features to return a numerically wrapped (not spec-correct) bounding box unless handled specially
Expect great-circle lines crossing the antimeridian to come back as a MultiLineString rather than a single LineString
Known gotchas
turf.buffer's antimeridian normalization can produce a polygon spanning the whole globe instead of a small shape near the dateline
omitting the units option silently computes in kilometers, causing order-of-magnitude errors if meters or miles were assumed
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