[PROJ] Installing PROJ on a Mac

[Chris Marsh]

Hi,

Oh...there is a binary that comes with proj! I've never used it, and did
not know about that, my apologies!
Hopefully someone on QGIS list or the issue can give you something more
actionable as my sense is the problem lies there.

Cheers
Chris

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:29 PM Christophe Besuchet <design at golok.net>
wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I updated to 3.16, but the bug persists… I updated the GitHub issue
> tracker, even though it is closed; if no answer, I'll open a new QGIS
> ticket. One thing is sure: the user who opened the original ticket has
> still issues as well (Windows 10, QGIS 3.16).
>
> The weird thing is that I can preview raster with the Winkel Tripel
> projection, but only part of it; as soon as the preview reaches the end of
> longitudes, the raster disappear (screenshots on the GitHub issue tracker).
>
> As for my attempt at checking if PROJ was installed by typing 'proj', I
> had found it here:
>
> https://github.com/dtutic/GDAL-1.10.1-wintri/blob/master/README.md
>
> Anyhow, let's hope this bug can be fixed on QGIS side.
>
> Thanks again for your input.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
>
> On 25 Nov 2020, at 17:16, Chris Marsh <chris.marsh at usask.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see you note
> >QGIS 3.14
> but the QGis 3.14 change notes
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog314/index.html
> claim that QGIS 3.14 addresses that problem -- search for  Problem
> reprojecting rasters in 54019 and 54042 CRSs #35512
> <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/35512> in the above link
>
> If resolving #35512 in v 3.14 and 3.16 doesn't solve the problem, I would
> open a new QGis ticket.
>
> On compiling proj:
> proj is one of the geospatial libraries used by QGis and is a core library
> for handling reprojection. It is something called by other programs and
> isn't going to show up on the command line by typing 'proj'.
> Further, the QGis will need to be recompiled against this newer version of
> proj to work. Installing proj yourself separately on your computer is
> almost certainly not going to bring the new features forward for the
> currently installed qgis.
> Compiling proj isn't going to do what you want unfortunately.
>
> So, I would confirm this is bug is still a problem on 3.14 (and really
> ensure you're trying QGis 3.16) and you aren't accidentally on 3.12.  If
> it's still a problem, I would open a new ticket or post on the QGIs mailing
> list '
> https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:21 PM Christophe Besuchet <design at golok.net>
> wrote:
>
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>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Dumb question from a dumb new user, so please forgive me if this is not
>> the right place to ask.
>>
>> I’m a QGIS user and I'm trying to solve a problem of reprojecting rasters
>> in Winkel Tripel projection 54042, in the following environment:
>>
>> mas OS Mojave 10.14.6
>> QGIS 3.14
>>
>> I understood that this was due "to the lack in PROJ of implementation of
>> the inverse projection for Winkel II" and that it was now "added for PROJ
>> 7.1".
>>
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/35512
>>
>> This is what I attempted:
>>
>> 1. Used Terminal to check if PROJ was installed on my Mac: got the
>> "-bash: proj: command not found"
>>
>> 2. I downloaded the two following files from the download page of
>> proj.org:
>>
>> • 2020-11-01 proj-7.2.0.tar.gz
>> • 2020-11-01 proj-data-1.3.tar.gz
>>
>> 3. Tried to install with the "brew install proj" command, as instructed
>> on the installation page, but to no avail; Terminal returned me the
>> following error message: "Error: No such file or directory @ dir_chdir -
>> /usr/local/Cellar” and "Operation not permitted @ dir_s_mkdir -
>> /usr/local/Cellar".
>>
>> However, after all this, I found a new "PROJ-master" subdirectory in my
>> user directory. In doubt, I checked once again if PROJ was installed on my
>> Mac, but Terminal returned me the same "-bash: proj: command not found".
>>
>> Obviously I must have missed something, and my knowledge of Terminal
>> commands is absolute zero… What am I supposed to do now?
>>
>> In advance thank you zillions for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christophe Besuchet
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