[MetaCRS] Fwd: [ol3-dev] proj4js

[Calvin Metcalf]

I through something together quickly on github it's a clone of Andreas'
repo containing some of the changes Michael put in but using grunt and
uglify https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/proj4js that can be a pull request
to Andreas repo.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Michael Adair <madair at dmsolutions.ca>wrote:

>  Hi Andreas,
>
> I started a version that would compile with the Closure compiler in
> advanced mode, as well as removing all the asynchronous loading stuff, and
> this is at http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj4js/branches/closure.  I did
> see Eric's reply to my query about it a while ago but haven't gotten much
> farther than I was a that point.
>
> I would be happy to have some help improving the library and I would still
> like to be involved and contribute, but for a move to github I would also
> ask for someone to take over leadership of the project, since an old fart
> like me is still having issues figuring out github (at least until I can
> use it actively in a project).
>
> Thanks for taking this on,
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 18/06/2013 4:17 AM, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
>
> I would be willing to lead that effort, because I have plans for
> proj4js too, to make it play nicely with OpenLayers 3. These plans
> include:
>
> * Move the repository to github (either a proj4js organization or a
> metacrs organizations if other metacrs projects want to join).
>
> * Create a hosted build tool to create builds that only contain
> projections that the user needs, with the ability to fetch projection
> defs (including axis order!) from http://spatialreference.org/.
>
> * Use Closure Compiler in Advanced Mode to ensure builds are as small
> as possible.
>
> * Make it extensible so developers can add custom transforms, and add
> custom transforms e.g. for Swiss projections, where proj4js only uses
> a 3 param transform because it does not do grid transforms.
>
> * Make the validity extent a property of the projection, and let the
> custom build tool fetch validity extents from
> http://epsg-registry.org/ (or http://spatialreference.org/ if we can
> agree on a way to extend either proj4 defs or OGC WKT defs to include
> the validity extent).
>
> I went ahead and created both proj4js and metacrs
> organizations on github, as a precaution. Please let me know if you're ok
> cloning the proj4js repo to github, and if I should do it in the proj4js or
> the metacrs organization. Also get in touch with me to become an owner of
> these organizations on github.
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:57 AM, OL3 Dev on behalf of Bart van den
> Eijnden <ol3-dev at googlegroups.com> wrote:
> > Seems that some people are interested in "revamping" proj4js:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/CWMma/status/346683497496334336
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > --
> > Bart van den Eijnden
> > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> > Expert service straight from the developers.
>
>  --
> Andreas Hocevar
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
> Expert service straight from the developers.
>
>
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