[PROJ] spatialreference.org updated!

[Andrew Patterson]

Wow, nice work Mr. Jimenez! This site has been a really useful tool over
the years and it's really quite obvious how snappy it is now. Thanks so
much!

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 9:34 AM Howard Butler via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I would like to congratulate Javier Jimenez for his work to completely
> refactor https://spatialreference.org <https://spatialreference.org/>.
> First released in 2007, spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/>
> was the first website to provide a canonical home for coordinate systems at
> fixed URL locations that could be referred to by other web infrastructure.
> Javier took the crusty Django site and completely refactored it to make it
> work better, be easy to update, and preserved its canonical URL history.
> Some highlights include:
>
> * Like https://crs-explorer.proj.org <https://crs-explorer.proj.org/>,
> spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> is now a statically
> generated site
> * It is fast :)
> * It is produced using PROJ.
> * It is open source https://github.com/OSGeo/spatialreference.org/ If you
> want to host your own internal mirrors, you can run the scripts and build
> your own deployment
> * It will be refreshed at least at the cadence of major PROJ releases
> (previously had been updated only once or twice in its entire 15+ year
> history)
> * It supports CORS (thanks GitHub Pages) for pulling in PROJJSON or WKT
> into your web applications
>
> I hope Javier has more to add about the effort, but I would like to thank
> him profusely for taking this on and completing it. It is a wonderful
> update to a widely used community resource.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Howard
>
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