[PROJ] Equivalent of OSRSetFromUserInput in proj 6 API

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 8 avril 2019 13:18:07 CEST Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> While plugging away at the QGIS proj 6 upgrade I came across code
> which uses OSRSetFromUserInput in order to convert any freeform string
> to a coordinate reference system object.
> 
> Is there an equivalent of this in the proj 6 API I should be using
> instead of this?

proj_create() will be able to handle PROJ strings, WKT, AUTH:CODE, OGC URNs 
and CRS names (like 'WGS84')

If you pass it a PROJ string that needs to be interpretated as a CRS, you need 
to add " +type=crs" to it, otherwise it will be interpretated as a coordinate 
operation.

Even

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