[postgis-users] SRID and EPSG

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, António,

António Pestana <afsm.pestana at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about http://www.epsg.org/databases/Discv6_15sql-PosgreSql.html ? Is it
> of any use? I'm really new to PostgreSQL and PostGIS, so may be this is a
> really dumb question...

The EPSG database contains a rather complex relational structure of
different tables describing reference systems, projections etc.

This relationals tructure was originally delivered as access file, but
additional delivery formats (like PostgreSQL SQL dump) have been added.

The PostGIS spatial_ref_sys table itsself contains a "flattened" view
of some aspects of that relational model.

So the EPSG database cannot be loaded as spatial_ref_sys table, but
maybe an automatic conversion process could be developed.


Regards,
Markus

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