[Qgis-psc] svn access for Richard Duivenvoorde

Thu Apr 10 07:44:16 PDT 2008

In the course of going thorough incubation for OSGeo, we added a  
requirement that contributors publicly agree to abide by the developer  
guidelines by sending an email to the qgis-developer list.

These guidelines are found at: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ContributorGuidelines

Just to make sure everybody understands the requirements and  
responsibilities, I'm going to ask all developers and contributors to  
send an email to the list.

+1 for Richard, providing he indicates agreement via email to the list.

-gary

On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Gary, Otto, Paolo, Tim
>
> Richard is an active community member, in the release team and now as
> maintainer of the srs database (srs.db). I therefore like to ask  
> your opinion
> about giving him svn write access.
>
> My opinion is +1
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
>
> ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
>
> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [Qgis-user] why is EPSG:2180 not recognised?
> Datum: Mittwoch 09 April 2008
> Von: Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
> An: Hugentobler Marco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>
>
> Hi Marco,
> ack.
> I will sent you a new srs.db in the upcoming days. Or is it possible  
> for
> me to get an svn-account (usefull for dutch translation also)? I'm
> comfortable with svn already....
> Thanks,
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> Hugentobler Marco wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Thanks for offering your help. Afaik (projection gurus, please  
>> correct me
> where I'm wrong) your understanding is right and it's all about  
> updating the
> srs.db with sqliteadmin. I think updating is not necessary before a  
> release,
> it can be done whenever you hear about epsg updates or people tell  
> you about
> a bug.
>>
>> So I'm going to add you as maintainer of srs.db to the wiki and  
>> will direct
> people with projection updates to you. I'm not an expert concerning
> projection specific questions (only one common coordinate system in
> Switzerland :-) ). If you have any questions, just send a mail to  
> the user
> and developer list. I think there are a lot of people in the QGIS  
> community
> with profound knowledge of projections and spatial reference systems.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Richard Duivenvoorde [mailto:rdmailings at duif.net]
>> Gesendet: Mo 07.04.2008 20:49
>> An: Hugentobler  Marco
>> Cc: Jean-Claude Repetto; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; tutey at o2.pl;
> tim at linfiniti.com
>> Betreff: Re: AW: [Qgis-user] why is EPSG:2180 not recognised?
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've got sqliteadmin (http://sqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de/) here, and it  
>> seems
>> pretty trivial to update the database srs.db with that tool...
>>
>> Though it might not be that trivial?
>> Looking at a freshly downloaded epsg file of the proj lib, I see
>> # WGS 72
>> <4322> +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS72 +no_defs  <>
>> The same holds true for 4322, 4622 and 4625
>>
>> Can somebody explain to me then why it should be jean-claude's  
>> version?
>> Or in other words, if the latest proj doesn't have it, what/who  
>> should
>> be the authorative source in this case then?
>> The srs.db. is nothing more then the parameters used by proj isn't  
>> it?
>> Or am I missing something here?
>>
>> 3328 - 3335 are indeed available in latest proj (and not in  
>> srs.db), so
>> it should be easy to add them.
>> same for 3120
>> same for 3066
>>
>> If I can count on some help with projection-specific questions, I can
>> make it a part of my 'release-team' work? I will add it to the
>> release-checklist in wiki then.
>>
>> Is it ok to update it for every release, or for every 'bug' people  
>> find
>> in it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hugentobler Marco wrote:
>>> Hi Maciej, Jean-Claude
>>>
>>>> Please don't tell me that I can send a patch with updates for the  
>>>> CS
>>>> database. That would fix only my problem, while EPSG database has  
>>>> lots
>>>> of fixes and additions in each new version, which get included in  
>>>> new
>>>> releases of PROJ, GDAL, GRASS but not in QGIS.
>>> It is of course also possible that you update the other entries in  
>>> the
> sqlite database of qgis.
>>>
>>> Ideal would be a volunteer that acts as a maintainer of srs.db and  
>>> updates
> it in regular periods.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marco
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Jean-Claude  
>>> Repetto
>>> Gesendet: Mo 07.04.2008 10:09
>>> An: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] why is EPSG:2180 not recognised?
>>>
>>> Maciej Sieczka wrote :
>>>
>>>> QGIS CS database is severly outdated.
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>> Other examples :
>>>
>>> WGS72 (EPSG 4322)
>>> ----------------
>>> The QGIS database contains :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS72 +no_defs
>>>
>>> It should be :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS72 +towgs84=0,0,4.5,0,0,0.554,0.219 +no_defs
>>> (look at <http://proj.maptools.org/gen_parms.html#towgs84>)
>>>
>>>
>>> Guadeloupe 1948 (EPSG 4622)
>>> ---------------------------
>>> The QGIS database contains :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=intl +no_defs
>>> It should be :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=intl
>>> +towgs84=-472.29,-5.63,-304.12,0.4362,-0.8374,0.2563,1.8984 +no_defs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Martinique 1938 (EPSG 4625)
>>> ---------------------------
>>> The QGIS database contains :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=intl +no_defs  <>
>>> It should be :
>>> +proj=longlat +ellps=intl
>>> +towgs84=126.93,547.94,130.41,-2.7867,5.1612,-0.8584,13.8227  
>>> +no_defs
>>>
>>>
>>> Conclusion : Don't trust the EPSG database, allways check the  
>>> parameters.
>>>
>>> Jean-Claude
>>>
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