[PROJ] NOAA VDatum Tidal Grids and PROJ CDN

[Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal]

Hello all,

I wanted to make sure to chime back in here (in case we go silent while
discussing all of this internally) to thank all of you for your input!  We
are currently investigating some of the options brought up in the
"Alternate use model on EPSG v10+ datum ensembles" thread for publishing
our grids.  We haven't settled on a way forward just yet, but I think we
have much more information than we started with.

Very excited to be making progress on this!

Eric

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:22 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> > @ Greg - Our Chief Geodesist has been significantly involved with the
> > ISO Geodetic Registry and I believe he has included all of the datum and
> > transformation parameters and grids from NGS into the registry.  While
> > EPSG is certainly the de facto standard I believe the desire is to have
> > this registry be the official location for parameters sometime in the
> > future.
>
> From our free software developer & user perspective, the ISO geodetic
> registry
> is no better than EPSG due to using quite similar terms of use than the
> EPSG
> one: https://geodetic.isotc211.org/terms
> A true (and non custom!) open data license would make it a much more
> appealing
> alternative.
>
> Even
>
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>


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