[postgis-users] NAD conversion problem

[Bruce Rindahl]

So if you have a Debian install where do you get the grid shift files 
and where do you copy them?
Thanks
Bruce

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Richard Greenwood
> <richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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).
>>>       
>
> Thanks for following-up on this. I imagine that quite a number of
> mailing list posts regarding datum shifts can be traced back to this
> very issue!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dylan
>
>
>   
>> 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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