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Make Geographic Coordinate System coordinates available to Text Fields

A Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) provides a great way to impose a geographically-accurate coordinate system on your DGN model.  The GCS has been part of MicroStation since V8i, and continues in CONNECT.  There's probably a GCS already available for your part of the world.

Text Fields showing XY coordinates

It's already possible to attach DGN XYZ coordinates to a text field.  It would be useful also to be able to attach GCS coordinates to a MicroStation text field.  That way, we could place a point and an associated text label, and the label would show the geographic location of the associated element.  As with XY coordinates, the geo-coordinates would update automatically if the host element is moved.  It would be better still to be able to display geo coordinates as longitude and latitude, or eastings and northings.