[Proj] PROJ 5.0.0RC5

[Kristian Evers]

Thanks for testing, Jeff. It is very appreciated. I hope you sort of your problems,
PROJ-related or not.

/Kristian

> On 25 Feb 2018, at 00:29, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
> Update: it seems many things were happening, causing me to look in wrong 
> places.  But in the end MapServer was in fact reprojecting the points; 
> what caused me total confusion was that I was testing with several 
> MapServer-related applications that are part of MS4W (Mapbender, 
> GeoMOOSE) and one application had a totally blank opening map image with 
> PROJ v5.  In fact for some reason the old hardcoded map extents 
> (displayed in EPSG:3857) no longer display the data (you have to now 
> zoom out a bit to see the data, reprojected with PROJ v5).  I'll contact 
> the GeoMOOSE team to let them dive into this (still, it could be my 
> Windows environment, as no one else seems to be testing MapServer + PROJ 
> v5 yet).
> 
> Very sorry for all this noise!
> 
> Short story: all is fine with RC5 here.
> 
> Thank you again Kristian for your passion driving this.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2018-02-23 5:33 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi Kristian,
>> 
>> No problems here on Windows in the MS4W environment, but I'm running
>> into odd errors when I have MapServer call PROJ 5
>> (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2018-February/015347.html).
>>   Obviously an issue downstream not here, but I thought I'd at least
>> mention it here that I am testing RC5 as well :)
>> 
>> Thanks for pushing this release along.
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-02-23 3:19 PM, Kristian Evers wrote:
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> I have prepared PROJ 5.0.0RC5. Downloads are here:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.0.0RC5.tar.gz (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.0.0RC5.tar.gz.md5)
>>> http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.0.0RC5.zip (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.0.0RC5.zip.md5)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Since RC4 problems with vertical grid installation, the Horner
>>> transformation and faulty polygon area calculation
>>> in geodesic library has been fixed. Hopefully this will be the final
>>> release candidate. I will call for a vote for
>>> promotion to final release on the 27th. Unless serious issues are
>>> discovered in the mean time.
>>> 
>>> /Kristian
>>> 
>>> 
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