[Gdal-dev] gdal to proj4 translation

[Amici Alessandro]

Frank,

i'm working on a DEM reader and i wuold be glad to use gdal and proj4
as fromat and projection engines. my question is: is there an easy way to
convert the gdal representation of the projections (the opengis format
if i understand correctly) and the proj4 strings?

digging into the docs i found the OGRSpatialReference class, which looks
like
a good starting point, but is it the shortest path?

thanks,
alessandro