[Proj] Several versions of the EGM96 grid

Andre Joost andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de
Thu Oct 5 02:31:26 PDT 2017


Am 05.10.2017 um 10:34 schrieb Kristian Evers:
> All,
>
> Just a word of caution. It has recently come to my attention that
> there's in fact several versions of the egm96_15.gtx grid being
> distributed. Thomas discovered it whilst trying to debug some failing
> tests. One version of the grid is distributed with OSGeo4W and the
> other is distributed on the OSGeo download website:
> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/vdatum/egm96_15/egm96_15.gtx
>
>
> Has anyone on the list got any insight as to which of the two
> versions of the grid is the correct one?
>

If you look at:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/vdatum/egm96_15/

You see a egm96_15-incorrect.gtx from 2010, and a "correct" one from 2014.

OSGEO4W64 has the one from 2010.

HTH,
andré Joost






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