[gdal-dev] gdal-dev Digest, Vol 120, Issue 9

[Even Rouault]

Le mardi 06 mai 2014 16:07:43, Andrea Peri a écrit :
> Hi Jef,
> thx for response.
> 
> unfortunately only now I see that the new Italian epsg codes are available
> in the last epsg db (the 8.4 version) released in the 1 may 2014.
> 
> Also I understand that gdal will not update to the last available version
> (i guess it was the 8.3 version).
> So perhaps only from two next release of gdal the epsg:8.4 will be
> supported
> 
> This mean more than 2 year (2016)

Andrea,

I'm not sure to understand why that should wait 2 versions and not the next 
(major) one ? I guess we missed 8.3 because nobody did it and the upgrade to 
8.2 was done before. It is not a matter of "policy".
Actually you just don't have to wait for the upgrade to land in trunk. It is 
generally "just" a matter of updating a bunch of csv files distributed with 
GDAL (although this migt have some software implications if new projection 
method codes are invented/changed). This is documented here : 
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/geotiff/2009-June/000566.html

Even

> 
> I hope to wrong something .
> 
> :)
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Andrea Peri.
> 
> 
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> 
> > To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] what version of epsg-db in gdal 1.11 ?
> > Message-ID: <5368E0D5.3070407 at gatewaygeomatics.com>
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> > 
> > On 2014-05-06, 10:04 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The IGM (Italian Geography Military) has update the definition of the
> > > Reference System in the EPSG DB.
> > > 
> > > So now there some new codes usable for datasets in Italy:
> > > epsg::6007, 6008, and so on.
> > > This codes are also mandatory for the new cartography that will be
> > > created in Italy.
> > > 
> > > So will be useful to have this codes available in the gdal environment.
> > > The version gdal I'm using (1.10) don't seem to know this codes.
> > > 
> > > Before to update to the new gdal 1.11 I like to know if it will support
> > > a more recent version of epsg-db.
> > > 
> > > Thx,
> > 
> > Hello Andrea,
> > 
> > >From the GDAL 1.11 release notes:
> >  * Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database
> > 
> > -jeff
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > --
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> Andrea Peri
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