Hi all, I am trying to do a simple buffer on a point feature based on a calculated field in meters based on the area. However, the spatial reference is in WGS lat/long and will only take the field units as decimal degrees it seems. Is there a way to specify the field as a meter buffer in a lat/long feature? Or would I need to project it to something that will take meters?How I was doing it before was to select each feature as it goes through the cursor and buffer that to a separate feature then merging them together.Here is my code so far below. Tips, hints, suggestions?import arcpy, math
ws = r"C:\GIS\Fires"
arcpy.env.workspace = ws
fires_in = r"fires1.shp"
pi = math.pi
field_list = arcpy.ListFields(fires_in)
for field in field_list:
print field.name
rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fires_in)
for row in rows:
area = row.Burned
buffer_dist = math.sqrt((area*10000)/pi)
row.Buffer = buffer_dist
rows.updateRow(row)
#arcpy.Buffer_analysis(fires_in, "fire"+name+".shp", str(buffer_dist)+" Meters")
arcpy.Buffer_analysis(fires_in, "fire_buffer.shp", "Buffer")
del rows
del row
del field_list
del fires_in
