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| author | Kristian Evers <kristianevers@gmail.com> | 2019-03-01 19:27:51 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-03-01 19:27:51 +0100 |
| commit | b9ed4eeb454b763039f2125ae3fcefdabd422dca (patch) | |
| tree | 0055580cbd17535ff5ea46f73089527b4bacc3d9 /docs/source/index.rst | |
| parent | a6add0dc054a55334ee880d83aca8c19510ab858 (diff) | |
| parent | a37f5fabc086ae4b9f30321b4647bfbba67e5afe (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1303 from dbaston/doc-edits
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diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index 33fd096d..69f483ce 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PROJ .. only:: html - PROJ is a generic coordinate transformation software, that transforms geospatial + PROJ is a generic coordinate transformation software that transforms geospatial coordinates from one coordinate reference system (CRS) to another. This includes cartographic projections as well as geodetic transformations. @@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ PROJ coordinates from text files or directly from user input. In addition to the command line utilities PROJ also exposes an :ref:`application programming interface<reference>`, or API in short. The API - let developers use the functionality of PROJ in their own software without having + lets developers use the functionality of PROJ in their own software without having to implement similar functionality themselves. PROJ started purely as a cartography application letting users convert geodetic coordinates into projected coordinates using a number of different cartographic projections. Over the years, as the need has become apparent, support for datum - shifts has slowly worked it's way into PROJ as well. Today PROJ support more + shifts has slowly worked its way into PROJ as well. Today PROJ supports more than a hundred different map projections and can transform coordinates between datums using all but the most obscure geodetic techniques. |