[postgis-users] NAD conversion problem

[Richard Greenwood]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

>> However, I am troubled that the Ubuntu proj distribution does not seem
>> to include the grid ship files.
>
>
> I have learned that the DebianGIS packagers are unwilling to distribute the
> grid shift component until there is a licensing statement available for the
> grid shift file .zip file.   I am following up with them. In time I hope
> Debian and Ubuntu will include grid shift files (possibly as an optional
> package).

Wow, that's a pretty major omission. I of course respect their
position, but it impacts anyone depending on Proj as a shared library
- PostGIS, MapServer, etc. And they're a bit inconsistent if Debian
GRASS is including the grid shifts (but we'll pretend that I didn't
say that so that the GRASS maintainers don't get yelled at).

Rich

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