[MetaCRS] Creating a MetaCRS Proj4J project?

[Martin Davis]

Good to hear, Justin.  Thanks for the input.

Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> 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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