Error on adding EPSG code

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at METACARTA.COM
Mon Oct 1 16:44:58 EDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:39:06PM +0200, J?r?me Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm perhaps telling you something wrong, but I think it's only because 
> EPSG codes are stocked on a short in programming system,
> because the last epsg:code is 32766 (# WGS 84 / TM 36 SE).
> A short is a 16 bit signed value, so the max value for a short is 
> 2^(16-1) = 2^15 = 32768.

This isn't why. MapServer supports EPSG:900913 -- obviously greater than
32768.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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