[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #26: please let people find their EPSG on the web

[GRASS GIS]

#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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  Reporter:  timmie       |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  Python       |     Version:  unspecified              
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  wxgui, location-wizard   
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Comment (by martinl):

 Replying to [ticket:26 timmie]:

 Copied from grass-dev ML by Hamish:

 > Maybe a link to http://spatialreference.org/ could be added to the
 location wizard.
 >
 > A extra button: "Look-Up your EPSG-code on the web". This button could
 link to the above mentioned address.

 A nice idea, albeit subject to volatility of some else's website.
 Link the button to something we control like a page GRASS's wiki or
 OSGeo's wiki or grass's osgeo web pages? Then old versions don't have
 hardcoded deal links one day.

 > Also a explanation why or what the EPSG-code is good for (the Mapserver
 docs have nice examples) would be nice.
 > Many migrating users would never have heard of EPSG...

 mouse-over tooltip?

 > Experienced users will appreciate when working with other projections...

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