[Proj] Any access to geodetic[sic] functions ??

[Christopher Barker]

Clifford J Mugnier wrote:
> NGS no longer presents a "competitive" presence in software.  The NGS is 
> an agency of NOAA, and now considers its software as public domain.  
> Everything is open and free to the public.  NGS only deals with civilian 
> applications of geodesy and they do nothing of a classified nature.  NGS 
> is not a secret organization like NGA must be for the U.S. Military.

I don't think anyone was suggesting there was anything secretive about 
it -- after all I work for NOAA too!

I just didn't see the code on a quick glance at the page. And in any 
case, old FORTRAN code for a few command line utilities doesn't quite 
satisfy the need for a library -- though I'm sure it's worth looking at 
and testing against.

Anyway, this all started because people ask about it a lot, and while 
pointing them to that page will answer the questions, it won't be as 
easy for folks as a C lib with a clean API -- it's not that big a deal, 
only a handful of functions, really.

-Chris



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