# GeoFile Writer: Could not set CRS: EPSG:3857

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/geofile-writer-could-not-set-crs-epsg-3857/90884>\
**Category:** Community Extensions\
**Tags:** geospatial\
**Created:** [December 2, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/geofile-writer-could-not-set-crs-epsg-3857/90884 "2025-12-02T14:31:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Essen](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/christian_essen/32/37294_2.png) [@Christian\_Essen](https://forum.knime.com/u/Christian_Essen)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/geofile-writer-could-not-set-crs-epsg-3857/90884/1 "2025-12-02T14:31:21Z")

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Any ideas?  
(KNIME 5.8, EPSG:4236 doesn’t work either.)

Thanks in advance  
Christian

2025-12-02 15:17:44,354 : ERROR : KNIME-Worker-11-GeoFile Writer 3:2438 : : Node : GeoFile Writer : 3:2438 : Execute failed: Could not set CRS: EPSG:3857  
org.knime.python3.nodes.PythonNodeRuntimeException: Could not set CRS: EPSG:3857  
at org.knime.python3.nodes.CloseablePythonNodeProxy$FailureState.throwIfFailure(CloseablePythonNodeProxy.java:921)  
at org.knime.python3.nodes.CloseablePythonNodeProxy.execute(CloseablePythonNodeProxy.java:572)  
at org.knime.python3.nodes.DelegatingNodeModel.lambda$4(DelegatingNodeModel.java:233)  
at org.knime.python3.nodes.DelegatingNodeModel.runWithProxy(DelegatingNodeModel.java:295)  
at org.knime.python3.nodes.DelegatingNodeModel.execute(DelegatingNodeModel.java:231)  
at org.knime.core.node.NodeModel.executeModel(NodeModel.java:605)  
at org.knime.core.node.Node.invokeFullyNodeModelExecute(Node.java:1331)  
at org.knime.core.node.Node.execute(Node.java:1038)  
at org.knime.core.node.workflow.NativeNodeContainer.performExecuteNode(NativeNodeContainer.java:618)  
at org.knime.core.node.exec.LocalNodeExecutionJob.mainExecute(LocalNodeExecutionJob.java:98)  
at org.knime.core.node.workflow.NodeExecutionJob.internalRun(NodeExecutionJob.java:201)  
at org.knime.core.node.workflow.NodeExecutionJob.run(NodeExecutionJob.java:120)  
at org.knime.core.util.ThreadUtils$RunnableWithContextImpl.runWithContext(ThreadUtils.java:369)  
at org.knime.core.util.ThreadUtils$RunnableWithContext.run(ThreadUtils.java:223)  
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)  
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)  
at org.knime.core.util.ThreadPool$MyFuture.run(ThreadPool.java:143)  
at org.knime.core.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:277)

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**Author:** ![k10shetty1](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@k10shetty1](https://forum.knime.com/u/k10shetty1)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/geofile-writer-could-not-set-crs-epsg-3857/90884/2 "2025-12-09T13:54:46Z")

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Hi @Christian_Essen,

To reproduce the issue and understand the cause, can you share a minimal example workflow here?

Best,  
Keerthan

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/geofile-writer-could-not-set-crs-epsg-3857/90884/3 "2026-03-09T13:55:45Z")

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