Re: [Mapbuilder-proj] project discussion

[Mike A. <ma...@dm...>]

Frank,

I would fully support this idea.  Sharing the data bases would be a big 
bonus, but a bigger benefit will come from connecting the community of 
coordinate system experts.

Yes let's use the mapbuilder tree for this for now.  This may be a good 
candidate for the OSGeo Labs concept.

Mike


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Mike Adair <ma...@dm...> wrote:
>   
>> Or perhaps we can use the OSGeo infrastructure for svn, trac, and
>> mailling lists?
>>     
>
> Mike / Rich,
>
> I'm very pleased to see things smoothing out.
>
> I've been kicking around the concept of a coordinate
> systems related "meta project" for OSGeo that would
> include CSMAP, PROJ.4, libproj4, your JavaScript
> code, and perhaps some stuff for converting coordinate
> system descriptions from OGR and supporting dictionaries
> and datum shift files from a variety of sources.
>
> I'm thinking this, in part, because any one of the projections
> projects along don't seem to be substantial enough to
> justify the whole "project machinery", and because by
> some loose federation it might be possible to achieve
> better sharing - in particular of support dictionaries and
> datum shift files.  Possibly also test streams, and
> coordinate system translation code (translating the
> coordinate system descriptions as opposed to transforming
> points).
>
> Pending this getting off the ground, perhaps things could
> live in the mapbuilder tree for a while?
>
> Best regards,
>