[QGIS-Developer] proj5 and epsg:3857 ?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 07-03-18 21:18, Even Rouault wrote:
> On mercredi 7 mars 2018 21:13:36 CET Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Having a geocoder plugins, in 2.18 (still proj4), I can geocode my home
> 
>> address, and reproject the epsg:28992 coordinate fine to epsg:3857.
>
>> But since last week Debian has proj5, and the same plugin (in QGIS 
>> master) now is off by 500 meter.
> 
> This is a known issue of proj 5.0.0.
> https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/issues/834
> 
> Will be fixed in proj 5.0.1 supposedly released around April

Ouch... Ok, thanks for the quick answer.

As we have OSM xyz layer now, and I think a lot of people will use it as
a quick reference map, we should be carefull to include proj5 in
distributions/installs then I think?

Like: let's not put proj5 as default in Osgeo4w untill this is
fixed/released.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde