[MetaCRS] Fwd: [ol3-dev] proj4js

Andreas Hocevar ahocevar at opengeo.org
Tue Jun 18 08:06:38 PDT 2013


Thanks Calvin. I haven't looked at the code yet, but please do create a
pull request against my repo - it's easier to review if it's a pull request.

Andreas.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metcalf at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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