[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 4.0 - let's start some early discussions!

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 21:21, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
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> > For me, the biggest pain point in current API relates to all the use
> > of CRS database id values. These are redundant, fragile, and block us
> > from some nice features we should have through proj 6. I'd very much
> > like to kill these and require AUTH:ID codes everywhere, but that's a
> > break. I've hacked around it as best I can for now, but it IS limiting
> > the extent we can utilise the new world of projections.
>
> How would you handle custom CRS (for example WKT definitions) that aren't
> registered by a authority ?

I'd keep the existing custom-user srs db, and the current approach of
assigning these "USER:10001" type codes. It's anything relying on the
internal srsId (db row id) and srid (postgis id?!?!?!) which need to
be killed.

Nyall

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