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Fwd: Re: [postgis-users] Question on datum names

pcav
Salve.
Sempre a proposito di CRS e datum, segnalo questo interessante thread.
Comments welcome.
Saluti.

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Oggetto: Re: [postgis-users] Question on datum names
Data: Wed, 30 May 2012 00:47:43 +0200
Mittente: Peter Baumann <[hidden email]>
Rispondi-a: PostGIS Users Discussion <[hidden email]>
Organizzazione: Jacobs University Bremen
A: PostGIS Users Discussion <[hidden email]>

Peter-

in OGC (www.opengeospatial.org) we are just about to establish a standard for
such conventions in a machine-readable way. This is a so-called "CRS Name Type
Specification" defines URLs as identifiers for CRSs and CRS axes for now. More
ingredients, such as datums, probably will follow in future. This standard will
allow for a uniform, interoperable addressing scheme.

If you are interested I can post some preliminary information. The candidate OGC
CRS resolver, SECORE, is in beta accessible at http://www.earthlook.org/ ->
demos -> CRS resolver. It is Open Source as part of the array analytics server,
rasdaman (www.rasdaman.org).

cheers,
Peter




On 05/29/2012 11:45 PM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:

> On the web site from which I distribute spatial data, I provide shapefiles
> with projection information as a .prj file.  I've drawn the contents of
> these prj files from the srtext field of the spatial_ref_sys table.
>
> A user has pointed out to me that this is inconvenient for people running
> ArcGIS because ArcGIS expects to see different values as the name of the
> coordinate system and the datum.  I have not seen a standard that specifies
> these names.  Is there one?
>
> It looks like I could change my .prj files to fit ArcGIS without much trouble.
> But would this change break other applications?  Are there GIS applications
> other than ArcGIS that rely strongly on these names?  How do others support
> portability of projection information in downloadable data using the shapefile
> format?
>
> Peter

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Re: Fwd: Re: [postgis-users] Question on datum names

Markus Neteler
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Paolo Cavallini <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Salve.
> Sempre a proposito di CRS e datum, segnalo questo interessante thread.
> Comments welcome.

E' un servizio apparentemente "useless" - provate con Gauss-Boaga:

http://212.201.49.173:8080/def/crs/EPSG/0/3003
--> mi sembra che manchi il datum geodetco (towgs84), allora è
      pericoloso basarsi su servizi come questo.

Alternative:
Per esempio, GRASS GIS chiede all'utente quale datum geodetico
usare: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/images/grass64_location_wiz3.png

Servizi (e alcuni GIS) non sono in grado di gestire più di un datum
geodetico per codice EPSG.

Ciao
Markus
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