Merge pull request #2477 from rouault/fix_2442

cs2cs / proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj(): add a --authority switch to  control where coordinate operations are looked for (fixes #2442)

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/source/development/reference/functions.rst b/docs/source/development/reference/functions.rst
index cc29743c..32902916 100644
--- a/docs/source/development/reference/functions.rst
+++ b/docs/source/development/reference/functions.rst
@@ -182,7 +182,19 @@ paragraph for more details.
     This is the same as :c:func:`proj_create_crs_to_crs` except that the source and
     target CRS are passed as PJ* objects which must of the CRS variety.
 
-    :param `options`: should be set to NULL currently.
+    :param `options`: a list of NUL terminated options, or NULL.
+
+    The list of supported options is:
+
+    - AUTHORITY=name: to restrict the authority of coordinate operations
+      looked up in the database. When not specified, coordinate
+      ``operations from any authority`` will be searched, with the restrictions set
+      in the authority_to_authority_preference database table related to the authority
+      of the source/target CRS themselves.
+      If authority is set to "any", then coordinate operations from any authority will be searched
+      If authority is a non-empty string different of ``any``, then coordinate operations
+      will be searched only in that authority namespace (e.g ``EPSG``).
+
 
 .. doxygenfunction:: proj_normalize_for_visualization
    :project: doxygen_api