[gdal-dev] Update of EPSG database to v8.4

Yann Chemin ychemin at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 21:37:34 PST 2014


Hi all,

just want to pick up the status of this, anything new/started somewhere I
could help with?

Trent, anything happened on your side about planetary proj support?

I am going to have a nother look about it, once answers/comments reach.
Cheers,
Yann

On 16 May 2014 at 04:46, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might be able to gzip compress the file
> GDAL can read gzip files transparently, but I am not sure that the csv
>  reading code in GDAL works with compressed files.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Even,
>>
>> I would be interested to include it. But I see that the 1Mb
>> uncompressed text is an issue.
>>
>> If it was OK for the additional Mb in the source code,
>> what would be the place to look into gdal code to create the patch needed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yann
>>
>> PS: did not copy other lists as I am not a member, registered to proj
>> ML today though.
>>
>> On 15/05/2014, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> > Selon Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> is there planetary datum support in this new version (i.e. Moon 2000,
>> or
>> >> etc.)?
>> >
>> > No, I don't think that the EPSG folks are interested in other planets
>> yet
>> > ;-)
>> > But Frank mentionned some time ago (
>> >
>> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/IAU-2000-Coordinate-System-Dictionary-td3750798.html
>> > ) that he wanted to investigate how to deliver the IAU set of planetary
>> > coordinate systems , but this hasn't been pursued further AFAIK.
>> >
>> > I see there's a version of this file here :
>> > http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/sr.org/srsbrowser/data/IAU2000.wkt
>> >
>> > Even
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Yann
>> >>
>> >> On 14/05/2014, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've followed the update process of the EPSG SRS database to latest
>> >> > v8.4,
>> >> > and
>> >> > just committed the updated files into libgeotiff, GDAL and PROJ
>> trunk.
>> >> > Also
>> >> >
>> >> > submitted to PostGIS.
>> >> >
>> >> > From what I can see, among many changes and additions, 2 new
>> projection
>> >> > methods have been added:
>> >> > * 1051,Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP Michigan)
>> >> > --> looks very close to standard "Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP)",
>> with
>> >> > the
>> >> > addition of a new parameter K, the ellipsoid scaling factor.
>> >> > * 1052,Colombia Urban
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't think any of those 2 new methods are currently handled by
>> PROJ,
>> >> > so
>> >> > the
>> >> > new PCS based on those projection methods (3 Michigan SRS, and
>> several
>> >> > dozains
>> >> > of Colombia PCS) will not be handled by GDAL nor PROJ.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regarding GDAL, I've improved the add_esri_column.py script (see
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/changeset/2446), so that we have more
>> >> > ESRI
>> >> > DATUM
>> >> > names. That should make morphing from/to ESRI .prj files a bit
>> better.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regarding PROJ.4 'espg' and PostGIS spatial_ref_sys.sql files, I've
>> >> > also
>> >> > added
>> >> > the list of SRS that are GEOCCS (GeoCentric) and COMPD_CS (Compound
>> >> > Horizontal
>> >> > + Vertical).
>> >> >
>> >> > Please let me know if you see issues.
>> >> >
>> >> > libgeotiff:
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ticket/63
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/changeset/2447
>> >> >
>> >> > GDAL:
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5462
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/27322
>> >> >
>> >> > PROJ:
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/236
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/changeset/2448
>> >> >
>> >> > Submitted for PostGIS :
>> >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2737
>> >> >
>> >> > Best regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Even
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Geospatial professional services
>> >> > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html
>> >> > _______________________________________________
>> >> > gdal-dev mailing list
>> >> > gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> ----
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> ----
>> _______________________________________________
>> gdal-dev mailing list
>> gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
>>
>
>


-- 
----
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/attachments/20141205/c8173156/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the gdal-dev mailing list