[postgis-devel] SRS Magic

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Thu Oct 29 10:16:40 PDT 2015


It’s been talked about before (crslib, etc) but as with PostGIS, gutting ones project for the benefit of others is never an appealing notion, no matter how many others might benefit. So it hasn’t happened.

P 

On October 29, 2015 at 10:13:32 AM, Sandro Santilli (strk at keybit.net) wrote:

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> One of the constant requests to make postgis easier to use is SRID
> detection. At this point GDAL has almost all the bits and pieces to do
> SRID detection from PRJ inputs. That would be a nice feature to add.
> On a similar note, we could start using SRTEXT entries to support
> reprojection in cases where PROJ4TEXT entries are missing, though I
> haven't heard too many complaints about that.

Could the GDAL feature be available separated from the whole of GDAL ?
An srslib kind of thing ?

--strk;
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