[Qgis-developer] Can we deactivate the Select datum transformations dialog by default?

[Marco Hugentobler]

>now I think I understand what do you mean. I just noticed that in QGIS
>master the towgs parameters of CRSs in use for Portugal have vanished.
>Is on purpose or should I consider it a bug?


Looks like a bug. When did it appear? I did not do any changes to the 
datum transform code in the last month.

Regards,
Marco

On 24.01.2014 12:20, Giovanni Manghi wrote:
> Hi Marco
>
>> I can live with either showing / not showing by default.
>> Just note that without showing, many people are receiving wrong
>> transformation results without any hint.
> now I think I understand what do you mean. I just noticed that in QGIS
> master the towgs parameters of CRSs in use for Portugal have vanished.
> Is on purpose or should I consider it a bug?
>
> for example in QGIS there are both the epsg 20790 that had the
> parameters and its counter part without (102164) and the user was able
> to choose between the two, choosing if he wanted the shift of not.
>
> If the parameters removal was on purpose (also for other CRSs for
> other countries) then we can have a serious issue.
>
> Also I have personally a lot of difficulties understand how the datum
> shift dialog works, then I guess that most of the people will have the
> same problem :)
>
> ntv2 grids were also added to the datum shift database, but never
> managed to have them show in the dialog. What I'm doing wrong?
>
> cheers!
>
> -- Giovanni --


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