[MetaCRS] How does this Autodesk contribution change the game, if at all?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Landon Blake wrote:
> http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=568792 
> <http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=568792>

Landon,

That is a fairly open ended question.  Did you have something
specific in mind?

Autodesk is contributing CS-Map which we have been discussing here for
some time as part of MetaCRS.  In fact, the launch of MetaCRS was motivated
by the expected open sourcing of CS-Map.

CS-Map gives us (the C/C++ based community) another option for coordinate
system libraries and it includes a bunch of stuff not previosly well
addressed (like vertical datum shifting and Oracle WKT transformation).

Hopefully this will help us advance the state of the art in FOSS4G though
I don't see it triggering any sort of fundamental game changer.

Best regards,
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