[postgis-users] NAD conversion problem

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Richard Greenwood
<richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>> However, I am troubled that the Ubuntu proj distribution does not seem
>>> to include the grid ship files.
>>
>>
>> I have learned that the DebianGIS packagers are unwilling to distribute the
>> grid shift component until there is a licensing statement available for the
>> grid shift file .zip file.   I am following up with them. In time I hope
>> Debian and Ubuntu will include grid shift files (possibly as an optional
>> package).

Thanks for following-up on this. I imagine that quite a number of
mailing list posts regarding datum shifts can be traced back to this
very issue!

Cheers,

Dylan


>
> Wow, that's a pretty major omission. I of course respect their
> position, but it impacts anyone depending on Proj as a shared library
> - PostGIS, MapServer, etc. And they're a bit inconsistent if Debian
> GRASS is including the grid shifts (but we'll pretend that I didn't
> say that so that the GRASS maintainers don't get yelled at).
>
> Rich
>
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