[gdal-dev] Update of EPSG database to v8.4

[Hare, Trent]

No issues with distribution of IAU codes. Anything we or I release (code or
otherwise) will have a "public domain" license as in normal as per US
government policy. Thus it is free for use by anyone for any purpose
without restriction under copyright law. If "GDAL" requires a more normal
license it can be taken over by anyone for that purpose.

-Trent

-Trent




On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org
> wrote:

> Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 14:00:33, Yann Chemin a écrit :
> > Hi Even,
> >
> > I would be interested to include it. But I see that the 1Mb
> > uncompressed text is an issue.
> >
> > If it was OK for the additional Mb in the source code,
> > what would be the place to look into gdal code to create the patch
> needed?
>
> Basically I believe it would be just a matter of dropping the file in the
> data
> subdirectory. I can see some logic in ogr/ogrspatialreference.cpp to deal
> with
> IAU: prefixes, but you would have to test.
>
> Something that should be checked is whether we have the rights to
> distribute
> that file along with GDAL.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yann
> >
> > PS: did not copy other lists as I am not a member, registered to proj
> > ML today though.
> >
> > On 15/05/2014, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> > > Selon Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com>:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> is there planetary datum support in this new version (i.e. Moon 2000,
> or
> > >> etc.)?
> > >
> > > No, I don't think that the EPSG folks are interested in other planets
> yet
> > > ;-)
> > > But Frank mentionned some time ago (
> > >
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/IAU-2000-Coordinate-System-Dictionary
> > > -td3750798.html ) that he wanted to investigate how to deliver the IAU
> > > set of planetary coordinate systems , but this hasn't been pursued
> > > further AFAIK.
> > >
> > > I see there's a version of this file here :
> > > http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/sr.org/srsbrowser/data/IAU2000.wkt
> > >
> > > Even
> > >
> > >> Yann
> > >>
> > >> On 14/05/2014, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I've followed the update process of the EPSG SRS database to latest
> > >> > v8.4,
> > >> > and
> > >> > just committed the updated files into libgeotiff, GDAL and PROJ
> trunk.
> > >> > Also
> > >> >
> > >> > submitted to PostGIS.
> > >> >
> > >> > From what I can see, among many changes and additions, 2 new
> > >> > projection methods have been added:
> > >> > * 1051,Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP Michigan)
> > >> > --> looks very close to standard "Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP)",
> with
> > >> > the
> > >> > addition of a new parameter K, the ellipsoid scaling factor.
> > >> > * 1052,Colombia Urban
> > >> >
> > >> > I don't think any of those 2 new methods are currently handled by
> > >> > PROJ, so
> > >> > the
> > >> > new PCS based on those projection methods (3 Michigan SRS, and
> several
> > >> > dozains
> > >> > of Colombia PCS) will not be handled by GDAL nor PROJ.
> > >> >
> > >> > Regarding GDAL, I've improved the add_esri_column.py script (see
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/changeset/2446), so that we have more
> > >> > ESRI
> > >> > DATUM
> > >> > names. That should make morphing from/to ESRI .prj files a bit
> better.
> > >> >
> > >> > Regarding PROJ.4 'espg' and PostGIS spatial_ref_sys.sql files, I've
> > >> > also
> > >> > added
> > >> > the list of SRS that are GEOCCS (GeoCentric) and COMPD_CS (Compound
> > >> > Horizontal
> > >> > + Vertical).
> > >> >
> > >> > Please let me know if you see issues.
> > >> >
> > >> > libgeotiff:
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ticket/63
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/changeset/2447
> > >> >
> > >> > GDAL:
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5462
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/27322
> > >> >
> > >> > PROJ:
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/236
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/changeset/2448
> > >> >
> > >> > Submitted for PostGIS :
> > >> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2737
> > >> >
> > >> > Best regards,
> > >> >
> > >> > Even
> > >> >
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