[Mapserver-users] Proj problems

Vincent Schut schut at sarvision.com
Fri Aug 1 10:43:11 EDT 2003


Daniel,
thanks for checking that this way and ending my confusion. So simple and I 
didn't think of it... Time for me to go home and have weekend :-)

On Friday 01 August 2003 16:11, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I just checked the PROJ4 source (pj_latlong.c) and it accepts both:
>
> PROJ_HEAD(latlong, "Lat/long (Geodetic)")  "\n\t";
> PROJ_HEAD(longlat, "Lat/long (Geodetic)")  "\n\t";
>
> According to CVS logs, it was initially called "latlong" and a few days
> after the initial implementation the alias for "longlat" was added.
>
> Daniel
>
> Vincent Schut wrote:
> > On Friday 01 August 2003 15:17, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> >>Vincent Schut wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>>There are a bunch of documents on the internet that say proj=longlat
> >>>(google for it, you'll be stumped!). I believe they are wrong...
> >>> However, if it is in the mapserver docs/wiki somewhere, we should track
> >>> that down and have it corrected.
> >>
> >>I'll try to find the references...
> >
> > After some research I found longlat even in my postgis.sql, defining the
> > projection parameters for postgis... I guess that longlat works too,
> > then. But according to the docs, it should be latlong.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vincent.
>
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