[GRASS-dev] 6.4.0 blocker bugs

[Maciej Sieczka]

W dniu 17.06.2010 21:13, Maciej Sieczka pisze:
> W dniu 20.05.2010 17:48, Paul Kelly pisze:
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010, Paul Kelly wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Maciej Sieczka wrote:

>>>>> Does this sound acceptable for now - in particular are there any
>>>>> differences between Pulkovo 1942 and Pulkovo 1942 (58) that are worth
>>>>> worrying about?

>>>> I don't know.

>>> OK well I will guess that any differences are not relevant for us
>>> here, and will see about adding the equivalence of Pulkovo_1942_58 and
>>> Pulkovo_1942 to SVN.

>> Actually it is a bit more complicated than this. According to the EPSG
>> database, Pulkovo_1942 is used in the following countries:
>> Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan;
>> Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation; Tajikistan;
>> Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan.
>> and Pulkovo_1942_58 is used in the following countries:
>> Albania; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Germany (former DDR); Hungary;
>> Poland; Romania; Slovakia.
>>
>> So it seems to me that we should have two separate datum entries in
>> GRASS, and that it is arguably a bug treating them both as one.
>>
>> I would appreciate some suggestions on what the GRASS abbreviation for
>> Pulkovo 1942 (58) should be; for Pulkovo 1942 it is S-42 - which IMHO is
>> not nice as it has a capital letter in it, but of course we can't change
>> it without breaking existing locations.

> Another solution is available now. In GDAL stable branch r19810
> https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/1.7/gdal/data/gcs.override.csv,
> overrides for problematic Polish CRSes [1] were added [2]. After copying
> it over $GISBASE/etc/ogr_csv/gcs.override.csv, the wxGUI location wizard
> behaves OK when using Polish EPSG codes [1]. Same as g.proj does, e.g.
> instead of a warning and a lacking towgs84:

Committed as r42664, r42665, r42666 to trunk, develbranch_6 and 
releasebranch_6_4, respectively.

Maciek

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