[OSGeo-Discuss] Revamped spatialreference.org

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Dear all,

let me start by thanking Javier for this initiative, a great service to your community (and beyond). I echo here the discussion in the PROJ mail-list [0]. Henceforth avoid using unofficial repositories to search/link coordinate reference systems, in particular epsg.io.

The authoritative sources at this moment are:

- epsg.org (International Association of Oil & Gas Producers)
- spatialreference.org (PROJ)
- https://www.opengis.net/def/crs (OGC)

ESRI used to have the most comprehensive on-line CRS repository, but it was taken off line some years back. Therefore spatialreference.org is also an important resource to ESRI users.

Best regards.

[0] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/proj/2024-January/011216.html

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On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 20:35, Javier Jimenez Shaw via Discuss <discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Even Rouault suggested me to announce here the availability of the refreshed spatialreference.org
>
> Howard Butler already announced it in the PROJ mailing list (very nice words, thanks). Maybe some people from this list are interested as well.
>
> Yesterday https://spatialreference.org/ was renewed, after many years (10?) of inactivity. The style is the same (yes, from the beginning of this century), but the data is now up to date. It includes modern formats that didn't exist back then like WKT2 or PROJJSON.
>
> As Howard says in https://fosstodon.org/@hobu/111718045341643725
> it is now statically generated, blazing fast, GitHub pages hosted, based on PROJ/PyPROJ.
>
> I started this project a few months ago after Even Rouault suggested me the idea based on my previous development of https://crs-explorer.proj.org/
> The main idea is exactly the same as in the CRS-Explorer: generate in python a JSON file with all the CRSs available in PROJ using PyPROJ, and display the information in a webpage statically hosted in GitHub pages (helped by JavaScript).
>
> The code to generate the webpage (and the webpage itself) is at https://github.com/OSGeo/spatialreference.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Javier
>
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