[PROJ] PROJ 6.3.0RC1

[Kristian Evers]

All,

With a scheduled release of PROJ 6.3.0. on January 1st 2020 it is time to put out a 
release candidate.

Download the archives here:


https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.0RC1.tar.gz (https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.0RC1.tar.gz.md5
) 
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.0RC1.zip    (https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.3.0RC1.zip.md5
)

See the release notes below.


In addition to the PROJ release candidate we are also issuing release candidates
for three regional datumgrid packages:

Oceania-1.1RC1:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.1RC1.zip

 - Added AUSGeoid98, AUSGeoid09 & AUSGeoid2020
 - Added various grids for New Zealand
 - Added GDA94_GDA2020 grids for Christmas and Coco Island

North-America-1.3RC1:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-latest.zip

 - Added Quebec grids na27na83.gsb and cq77na83.gsb
 - Added MAY76V20.gsb for Canadian NAD27(76)->NAD83 transformations
 - Added Canadian geoid models for CGVD28, CGVD2013(CGG2013) and CGVD2013(CGG2013a)
 - Regenerated g2018u0.gtx and g2018p0.gtx files prompted by error in previous versions
 - Added Canadian provincial horizontal shift grids
 - Added USA geoid models 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2018

  
Europe-1.5RC1:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.5RC1.zip

- Added SeTa2016.gsb for DE_DHDN -> ETRS89 in Saarland
- Added 100800401.gsb for Catalonia ED50 -> ETRS89
- Added NTv2_SN.gsb for RD/83 to ETRS89 in Saxony
- Added AT_GIS_GRID.gsb for Austria MGI->ETRS89
- Added various grids for Iceland, including ISL init file
- Added BWTA2017.gsb for DHDN->ETRS89 for Baden-Württemberg
- Addedvertical grids for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: RASPM2018 and CGVD2013RGSPM06
- Added NTv2 grids for convertion between Portuguese Lisbon Datum and Datum 73 to ETRS89


Please test the release candidates and report back any problems you
may encounter. 

/Kristian

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6.3.0 Release Notes
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 Updates
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 o Database: tune accuracy of Canadian NTv1 file w.r.t NTv2 (#1812)

 o Modify verbosity level of some debug/trace messages (#1811)

 o projinfo: no longer call createBoundCRSToWGS84IfPossible() for WKT1:GDAL
   (#1810)

 o proj_trans: add retry logic to select other transformation if the best one
   fails. (#1809)

 o BoundCRS::identify(): improvements to discard CRS that aren't relevant
   (#1802)

 o Database: update to IGNF v3.1.0 (#1785)

 o Build: Only export symbols if building DLL (#1773)

 o Database: update ESRI entries with ArcGIS Desktop version 10.8.0 database
   (#1762)

 o createOperations(): chain operations whose middle CRSs are not identical but
   have the same datum (#1734)

 o import/export PROJJSON: support a interpolation_crs key to geoid_model
   (#1732)

 o Database: update to EPSG v9.8.4 (#1725)

 o Build: require SQLite 3.11 (#1721)

 o Add support for GEOIDMODEL (#1710)

 o Better filtering based on extent and performance improvements (#1709)


 Bug fixes
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 o Horizontal grid shift: fix issue on iterative inverse computation when
   switching between (sub)grids (#1797)

 o createOperations(): make filtering out of 'uninteresting' operations less
   aggressive (#1788)

 o Make EPSG:102100 resolve to ESRI:102100 (#1786)

 o ob_tran: restore traditional handling of +to_meter with pj_transform() and
   proj utility (#1783)

 o CRS identification: use case insensitive comparison for authority name
   (#1780)

 o normalizeForVisualization() and other methods applying on a ProjectedCRS: do
   not mess the derivingConversion object of the original object (#1746)

 o createOperations(): fix transformation computation from/to a CRS with
   +geoidgrids and +vunits != m (#1731)

 o Fix proj_assign_context()/pj_set_ctx() with pipelines and alternative coord
   operations (#1726)

 o Database: add an auxiliary concatenated_operation_step table to allow
   arbitrary number of steps (#1696)

 o Fix errors running gie-based tests in Debug mode on Windows (#1688)