[postgis-users] proj parameters from srtext?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:13:33AM -0600, Sean Gillies wrote:
> The Proj.4 distribution contains a file named "epsg" that has
> a mapping between EPSG codes (SRID) and the Proj.4 parameter strings.
> It's straightforward to create SQL commands from this file
> and update the spatial_ref_sys table with the appropriate values.

Good to know, I did'nt make the right match on this name.

> I guess that they are not including Proj.4 parameters in
> spatial_ref_sys.sql because they don't want to tie you to a
> particular version of Proj.4.

Paul's answer lets me assume that it was a god question to ask. :)
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