[gdal-dev] Requesting gdal update to at least EPSG v8.6

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 06 mai 2015 18:01:59, Mary Jo Brodzik a écrit :
> Bonjour, Even,  Merci for the quick response!
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think v8.5 is good enough.  I worked with Roger
> Lott late last year, and he made several corrections, including:
> 
> 1) New projection Conversion codes 6928, 6929, 6930
> 2) New ProjectedCRS codes 6931, 6932 and 6933

They aren't yet in the version that was imported.

I'm moderately enthusiastic about redoing a new sync with latest EPSG database 
for just 3 codes, unless there's a strong demand from the community. You can 
workaround by manually adding in epsg.wkt the WKT definitions (old-style) of 
the PCS you're interested into.

If anyone is willing to do the update, the procedure is described here :
http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/browser/trunk/libgeotiff/csv/README


> 3) Changed the state of deprecated codes 3973, 3974, 3975 to "Invalid"
> because they were incorrect
> 4) Edited descriptions for 3408, 3409 and 3410 to indicate they are
> now superceded.
> 
> Roger did indicate that he had some of these in a patch release of EPSG
> v.8.5.4, but that there were still some names and metadata that were
> 
> incorrect in 8.5.4 that were correctly released in v8.6.  From Roger:
> > As far as the projection and CRS definitions are concerned everything is
> > already OK in v8.5.4 in that coordinate conversions using CRSs 6931-33
> > will be correctly implemented. It is only metadata (projection [but not
> > CRS] names and projection and CRS remarks) that will change. As soon as
> > we publish v8.6, v8.5.4 will no longer be available and the metadata you
> > consider wrong will be lost to posterity.
> 
> Mary Jo
> 
> On Wed, 6 May 2015, Even Rouault wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 17:48:34 +0200
> > From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> > To: Mary Jo Brodzik <brodzik at nsidc.org>
> > Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Requesting gdal update to at least EPSG v8.6
> > 
> > Le mercredi 06 mai 2015 17:24:57, vous avez écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I would like to request that gdal be updated to use the latest EPSG
> >> codes.
> >> 
> >> I worked with EPSG last year to correct some obsolete ProjectedCRS
> >> definitions for some products I am developing, and I understand that the
> >> corrected definitions were included in EPSG v8.6, released in Nov 2014.
> >> 
> >> I am unsure how to actually confirm the EPSG version included with gdal,
> >> but I did find this trac ticket (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5462)
> >> that looks like you upgraded to epsg v8.4 in May 2014.
> > 
> > Mary,
> > 
> > GDAL 2.0 (currently in beta1) has been upgraded to EPSG v8.5. Isn't that
> > good enough ? Which EPSG codes are you interested in ?
> > 
> > Even
> > 
> >> The EPSG web site at www.epsg-registry.org seems to indicate the latest
> >> version may be 8.7.  I don't know what is new.  For my purposes and to
> >> let my users know, v8.6 or better is what I need.
> >> 
> >> Thank you,
> >> Mary Jo Brodzik
> >> 
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Mary Jo Brodzik, Senior Associate Scientist, 303-492-8263
> NSIDC/CIRES, Univ. of Colo. at Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0449
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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