[GRASS-dev] Re: gui startup bug (new locn by epsg code)

[Michael Barton]

I was thinking that each transformation choice should be listed in the EPSG
file. Is this feasible?

Michael


On 1/31/07 4:04 AM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> We are also somewhat constrained by the historical structure of the datum
> tables in GRASS and the need for backward compatibility with existing
> locations. The original structure (dating from the late 90s or so) was
> based on the erroneous premise that there *was* only one correct set of
> parameters for each data, hence there are now two datum tables -
> datum.table and datumtransform.table. It is annoyingly complicated.

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