[Geotiff] "standards" process?

[Frank Warmerdam]

brownrigg at sunflower.com wrote:
> In both libgeotiff (and also embedded in GDAL),  there appears to be a
> "canonical" encoding for the various supported projections. Can anyone
> comment on how those standards (or conventions perhaps) came to be, and more
> importantly, what the process might be for extending them?

Rick,

During the original GeoTIFF development effort there was work to
collect sample files of various proections.  I took a bunch of those
and attempted to document the expected formulation of the different
projections at:

   http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list

There were really my own claim on canonical.

> I have commented here before that I believe the convention for polar
> stereographic is not quite correct (link below), and am further interested
> in seeing support added what proj4 calls the "General Oblique
> Transformation" (proj=ob_tran) added.  I'm prepared to provide a fix for the
> former (assuming everyone/anyone agrees its a bug), and a proposal for the
> later, but how best to proceed?
> 
> http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/geotiff/2009-April/000559.html

I would encourage you to file a ticket on each issue, with a solution
at:

   http://geotiff.osgeo.org/

Best regards,
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