[postgis-users] BC Albers Projection In Spatial Ref Sys Table?

[Paul Ramsey]

3005 is the new, official, EPSG code, as assigned by EPSG itself.
42102 is the made-up number that CubeWerx invented for NFIS.
3005 is quite new, so you will still find lots of references to 42102 
hanging around.
P


On Friday, January 28, 2005, at 07:38 AM, John Fletcher wrote:

> Darren,
>
> Thanks - that's a little embarassing, I should have just done that 
> first.  I was looking exclusively for EPSG:42102 - I didn't think of 
> looking elsewhere.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net on behalf of 
> Darren Houston
> Sent: Fri 1/28/2005 3:07 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] BC Albers Projection In Spatial Ref Sys 
> Table?
>
> Hi John,
>
> I am using a PostGIS CVS version from a month or so ago, and I checked 
> for BC
> Albers. In my spatial_ref_sys table, it resides at srid=3005
>
> This query returned the result;
>
> select * from spatial_ref_sys where srtext like '%BC%'
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Darren H.
>
> On January 27, 2005 10:11 pm, John Fletcher wrote:
> > I can't seem to find BC Albers in the spatial_ref_sys.sql. Should
> > this projection be added manually, is it under a different ID than
> > EPSG:42102, or did I just miss it? I'm using v1rc1, but checked rc2
> > also.
> > Thanks a bunch.
> >
> > John
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      Paul Ramsey
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