[Qgis-developer] [PROPOSAL] From srs.db to file-based CRS storage

[Alex Mandel]

I actually commented on this on CRS the other day. I think adding an
export/import tool to the custom CRS tool could help a lot, and the prj
wkt format could be used or other formats as seen on spatialreference.org

Personally sqlite seems like a more efficient solution to me within the
program, but I agree better access to the information can help some
users. We might also consider a form in QGIS with boxes for each of the
possible proj parameters rather than having to figure out the syntax
(personally I copy past from spatialreference.org)

Thanks,
Alex


On 01/30/2012 01:32 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Alex
> 
> Isn't it a regression to go from sqlite files to text files? Sqlite
> allows to search tables with sql and afaik this is used in several places.
> 
>> while moving and editing flat text files is much easier for ordinal users
> 
> Ordinal users normally don't care about CRS at all. I agree with Andreas
> here that it is much more difficult to have knowledge about CRS than
> using an sqlite editor (or the commandline prompt).
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> On 30.01.2012 20:58, Alexander Bruy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> currently QGIS used srs.db to store projection definitions. But with
>> this approach
>> users can't reorganize CRS definitions as they want (always used
>> predefined tree
>> with predefined groups).
>>
>> This can be solved by switching to file-based storage of the CRS
>> definitions as in
>> latest ArcGIS versions or wxGIS. All CRS definitions are stored as
>> files in WKT or
>> SPR (preffered) format in subdirectories in some redefined folder and
>> user can freely
>> create new subdirectories and move files between them to organize
>> CRS'es as he/she
>> wants.
>>
>> Opinions, comments?
>>
>> Thanks
> 
>