[postgis-users] SRID and EPSG

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>> The spatial_ref_sys table is periodically updated by me in a rather
>> complicated process that includes updating libtiff, proj.4, and GDAL with
>> up to date definitions.  I have not run it for a while, and it requires
>> a fair amount of care.
>
> I was thinking about this for PostGIS the other day, and was wondering if
> there was a way unifying this work through spatialreference.org. For
> example, would it be possible if spatialreference.org could release a new
> version of its database every quarter or so? Then for each PostGIS release
> we would just download the latest release of the spatialreference.org
> database in PostGIS INSERT format. It would be fairly easy to add the
> database release version somewhere in the output of SELECT
> postgis_full_version() or similar.

There has been some discussion on the MetaCRS list
    http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/metacrs
that you may find relevant. It doesn't solve the your problem, but it
has some useful background and opinions.

Rich

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