[Proj] PROJ 4.5.0 beta (and Krovak!)

[Gerald I. Evenden]

I may as well offer my two cents also.

I do not particularly care what the projection is called but I would 
appreciate some communications as to using the 'kocc' designation so I could 
at least change my releases of libproj4 to conform with external usage.

Also, there was some earlier communications that maybe libproj4 would replace 
the old proj4 based code and recoding of existing applications might occur.  
I presume these ideas are dead and proj4 will remain the primary basis.

It is also somewhat disappointing that there is little if any communications 
about efforts modifying either proj4 or libproj4.  In the latter case I do 
not bother discussing my activities with libproj4 as I had no knowledge of 
anyone else hacking the system other than for private purposes.

Lacking any communications among developers is just going to lead to a 
mishmash of an odd assortment of [lib]proj4 releases with greater and greater 
incompatibility.

On Thursday 14 September 2006 9:46 am, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> Just a suggestion (probably unhelpful because I'm not proposing to help
> out with the work involved!) but I thought I should point it out:
> Gerald supports this projection in libproj4, where it is identified by
> proj=kocc (for Krovak Oblique Conformal Conic) rather than proj=krovak.
> For long-term consistency (I know at some stage you intend to include
> libproj4 as some kind of "core" to PROJ.4) might it be a good idea to use
> his code instead of patching the "contributed" krovak code in PROJ.4?
>
> Paul
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am surrounded by folks from the Czech Republic who have
> > finally forced me to fix the Krovak projection!
> >
> > So,  finally, after many years it is done!
> >
> > I have also prepared a beta of PROJ 4.5.0 with this change at:
> >
> > http://www.gdal.org/tmp/proj-4.5.0b1.tar.gz
> > or
> > http://www.gdal.org/tmp/proj-4.5.0b1.zip
> >
> > If there are no problems I will likely issue a final release in
> > a week or two.
> >
> > Best regards,
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