[postgis-users] prj and SRID relation

[Paul Ramsey]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> I would add that implementing WKT to PROJ.4 translation isn't
> terribly hard, but it is significantly harder to keep up with
> variations in WKT input from different sources, especially ESRI.
> Have to maintain multiple copies of this sort of stuff would be quite
> a hassle for all involved.  My maintaining one copy of it is already
> quite a hassle!

Just by way of an aside, does OGR ever use the WKT in the absence of 
proj4? I just find it odd that the library that needs the ability to 
parse the serialized form (proj4) is not the library that actually has 
the ability. Could you be persuaded (somehow :) to move the WKT support 
to proj4 and deprecate the OGR side, thereby maintaining a single point 
of maintenance, but having that point be proj4?

Paul