Re: [Mapbuilder-proj] project discussion

[Frank W. <war...@po...>]

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,
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