[Gdal-dev] SetLocalCS() binding?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Richard Matsunaga wrote:
>  
> Coincidentally, I had the same question myself today. In my case, it came up
> because I am taking the spatial reference from a GDAL datasource and setting
> it in an OGR datasource.
> 
> To do so is a little funky - get a wkt string from GetProjectionRef() from
> the GDAL Dataset, then create a OSGeo.OGR.SpatialReference from the wkt
> string. I guess this has always been the case with GDAL and OGR?

Richard,

Yes, this has always been different.  Originally GDAL returned PROJ.4 strings
from GetProjectionRef(), but then fairly early on I changed to using WKT.
But with the API already set to return strings I just left it that way.

OGR came on the scene a bit later, and used OGRSpatialReference from the start.

> Also, why is there a GetProjection() and GetProjectionRef() on the Dataset
> class, both returning strings? There seems to be only one such method in the
> C API (GDALGetProjectionRef).

I'd guess that originally GetProjectionRef() was wrapped directly, and
then later GetProjection() was introduced because the Ref concept doesn't
apply to most languages with built in string types.

I *think* that GetProjectionRef() ought to be considered deprecated.

Best regards,
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