[gdal-dev] BAG CRS

[Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal]

Just to be clear, I believe we are talking about the vertical wkt string
provided through the VAR_VERT_WKT creation option.  Not the horizontal
coordinate system.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:01 PM Vautour, André (INT) <
Andre.Vautour at teledyne.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> It has just come to my attention that the BAG driver in GDAL is writing
> the CRS with a WKT codeSpace and a WKT 2.0 string as the code. While I am
> fairly sure we started that incorrect practice here at CARIS with a WKT 1.0
> string, this is the first time I’ve seen a WKT 2.0 string written in there,
> and I am therefore concerned about interoperability.
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> I think we can all agree that what makes the most sense is to write an
> EPSG codebase with the EPSG code if we have it, and I think falling back to
> a WKT 1.0 string if it is not EPSG is a reasonable fallback if it is not
> EPSG, given how it has been used in the past, but I am worried that older
> software won’t recognize the WKT 2.0 string.
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> Would you be willing to take a pull request that does that? Worst-case,
> would you be fine with changing that WKT 2.0 string to a WKT 1.0 string?
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> Regards,
>
> André
>


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