[Gdal-dev] Re: [whatever] toWGS defintions

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Aug 9 10:23:33 EDT 2007


Tomas R wrote:
> So for now I need to find a WKT for every projections I wish to support?
> 
> To bad, for me, but hopefully I can get a big set of users to help me 
> getting the correct WKT with a toWGS for their maps. I have two working 
> now, RT90 and CH1903+. Working really good with no visible offset when 
> drawing a GPS-track on the map.
> 
> or wait for you to do what you *ought* to do :)
> No, that will not do.
> 
> No tip on a source for WKT-strings? Perhaps one with all UTM-zones? Or 
> one with the different projections used in Europe?

Tomas,

I mentioned geotools, right?  You should be able to use geotools to
build a set of WKT definitions for the EPSG coordinate systems though
whether they are the *best* TOWGS84 values would be questionable.
Some Java programming would likely be required.

Best regards,
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