[gdal-dev] Re: Motion: Adopt RFC 20: OGRSpatialReference Axis Support

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Jan 14 23:54:36 EST 2008


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> While I'm not super confident I have thought through all possible 
>> implications,
>> I would like to initiate a vote on RFC 20: OGRSpatialReference Axis 
>> Support.
>>
>>   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc20_srs_axes
>>
>> +1 from me.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I appologise for the irregularity but I have updated the RFC with a
> suggested friendly ammendment from Howard.  In the 
> OGRCoordinateTransformation
> section I added:
> 
> """
> The CPL config option "IGNORE_AXIS_ORIENTATION" may also be set to
> "FALSE" to disable OGRCoordinateTransformation's checking, and application
> of axis orientation changes. Effectively this is a backdoor to disable the
> core effects of the RFC.
> """

Grr, I got the sense of that backwards.  It now reads:

  """
  The CPL config option "IGNORE_AXIS_ORIENTATION" may also be set to
  "TRUE" to disable OGRCoordinateTransformation's checking, and application
  of axis orientation changes. Effectively this is a backdoor to disable the
  core effects of the RFC.
  """

Best regards,
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