projNowhere: Internal CRS usage
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Internal CRS usage

Description

This is used in various places when converting agentMatrix objects to SpatialPoints for use with functions, such as raster::buffer(). None of these functions results in any real geospatial information being conserved, other than distance and angle calculations. Buffering still occurs on the unit-less World. This is therefore a way to allow sp and raster functions to work as if a cell in the World was equal to 1 m. The resulting answers will be converted back to units of "cells", not "m". The CRS() operation is relatively time consuming. Having a single object usable throughout is much faster.