[MetaCRS] Creating a MetaCRS Proj4J project?

[Justin Deoliveira]

I think this would be a great thing Martin. I reviewed the code some 
time ago and found it to be very straight forward and lightweight 
compared to other java crs libraries. I think it would be a great 
addition to the community.

2c,

-Justin

Martin Davis wrote:
> All
> 
> Some of you may be familiar with the JHLabs Java version of Proj4.  This 
> is a worthy effort, which seems deserving of continued support.  I'm 
> wondering if there is interest in seeing this hosted under MetaCRS?  If 
> so, I'd be willing to take the initial effort of migrating it into the 
> repository, and making the first few bug fixes  8^)
> 
> My goal with this would be to simply track Proj4 development for all 
> technical aspects of projection algorithms, CRS descriptions, unit 
> tests, etc.  The hope is that this will minimize maintenance effort and 
> learning curve.  There is some scope for improving the purely Java 
> design aspects of the library, but I hope this can simply follow 
> well-accepted Java best practices.
> 
> Is anyone else interested in helping out with maintaining this library?
> 

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Justin Deoliveira
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