TRACES silent error · EUDR
My TRACES plot shows in the ocean or the wrong country — how to fix it
Your plots imported into TRACES without an error, but on the map they sit in the sea, or in the wrong country entirely. Almost always this is swapped latitude and longitude — and TRACES will not warn you, because it never checks coordinates against the declared country.
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Why plots land in the ocean
GeoJSON requires coordinates in [longitude, latitude] order. Many exports and spreadsheets use [latitude, longitude] — the human-readable order. Swap them and a plot in Brazil jumps into the Atlantic, or into another hemisphere. TRACES plots exactly what the file says and reports no problem.
Two variants: an impossible point (a latitude above 90°, which can only be a swap) and an ambiguous one (both numbers are valid as latitude and longitude, so the plot lands somewhere plausible but wrong — only a check against the declared country catches it).
Why it is dangerous
The coordinates drive the whole deforestation-risk benchmark. A plot in the wrong place is a false declaration that only surfaces later — at a competent authority, not at import. TRACES does not validate location against your Country of Production, so nothing stops it going in.
Fix it in DDSpass
DDSpass detects swaps two ways: deterministically when a latitude exceeds 90°, and by disambiguation against the declared country's bounding box when both values are valid. It corrects the order and shows every plot on a map so you can eyeball them. Everything runs in your browser.
Questions
Why does my plot show in the ocean on TRACES?
Its latitude and longitude are almost certainly swapped. GeoJSON expects [longitude, latitude]; many files use the reverse, which moves the point out to sea or into the wrong country.
Does TRACES warn me if coordinates are in the wrong country?
No. TRACES does not check coordinates against your declared Country of Production, so a swapped or misplaced plot imports without any warning.