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| author | Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com> | 2020-01-22 18:31:26 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-01-22 18:31:26 +0100 |
| commit | db31b6dfa9c8fe37d5706d95ce81012b8db3c3b9 (patch) | |
| tree | dc592c2b56f8af476c42a51f5dbc6ee04fabc280 /docs/source/usage/network.rst | |
| parent | 1ad703a58ce1867fe2ede96ebced1bdec9c63d65 (diff) | |
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Merge RFC4 (#1865)
This commit is the result of the squashing of rfc4_dev branch in a single
commit. It implements mostly RFC 4 related work.
* Grid handling:
- remove obsolete and presumably unfinished implementation of grid catalog functionality
- all grid functionality is in grids.cpp/.hpp
- vertical and horizontal grid shift: rework to no longer load whole grid into memory
- remove hgrids and vgrids member from PJ structure, and store them in hgridshift/vgridshift/deformation structures
- build systems: add optional libtiff dependency. Must be explicitly disabled if not desired
- add support for horizontal and vertical grids in GeoTIFF, if libtiff is available
- add GenericShiftGridSet and GenericShiftGrid classes, relying on TIFF grids, that can be used for generic purpose grid-based adjustment
- add a +proj=xyzgridshift method to perform geocentric translation by grid. Used for French NTF to RGF93 transformation using gr3df97a.tif grid
- deformation: add support for +grids= for GeoTIFF grids
- horizontal grid shift: fix failures on points slightly outside a subgrid (fixes #209)
* File management:
- add a filemanager.cpp/.hpp to deal with file related work
- test for legacy proj_api.h fileapi
- proj.h: add proj_context_set_fileapi() and proj_context_set_sqlite3_vfs_name() (fixes #866)
- add capability to read resource files from the user writable directory
* Network access:
- build systems: add optional curl dependency
- add a curl-based default implementation for network related functionality
- proj.h: add C API to control network functionality, and optionaly provide network callbacks
- add data/proj.ini with default settings
- add a SQLite3 local cache of downloaded chunks
- add proj_is_download_needed() and proj_download_file()
* Use Win32 Unicode APIs and expect all strings to be UTF-8 (fixes #1765)
For backward compatibility, if PROJ_LIB content is found to be not UTF-8 or
pointing to a non existing directory, then an attempt at interpretating it
in the ANSI page encoding is done.
proj_context_set_search_paths() now assumes strings to be in UTF-8, and
functions returning paths will also return values in UTF-8.
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diff --git a/docs/source/usage/network.rst b/docs/source/usage/network.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..295232b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/usage/network.rst @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.. _network: + +================================================================================ +Network capabilities +================================================================================ + +.. versionadded:: 7.0 + +PROJ 7.0 has introduced, per :ref:`rfc4`, the capability to work with grid files +that are not installed on the local machine where PROJ is executed. + +This enables to transparently download the parts of grids that are needed to +perform a coordinate transformation. + +.. _cdn_grids: + +CDN of GeoTIFF grids +-------------------- + +Files are accessed by default through a CDN (Content Delivery Network), +accessible through https://cdn.proj.org, that contains :ref:`geodetictiffgrids` +datasets which are mirrored and managed by the +https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid-geotiff/ GitHub project. +Files in the CDN are designed to be used by PROJ 7 or later, but any software +project wishing to use the CDN for shifting support are encouraged to +participate in the project and leverage the CDN. + +How to enable network capabilities ? +------------------------------------ + +This capability assumes that PROJ has been build against `libcurl`, and that +the user authorizes network access. + +Authorizing network access can be done in multiple ways: + + - enabling / uncommenting the ``network = on`` line of :ref:`proj-ini` + - definiting the :envvar:`PROJ_NETWORK` environment variable to ON + - or using the :cpp:func:`proj_context_set_enable_network` with a + ``enabled`` = TRUE value. + +.. note:: + + Instead of using the `libcurl` implementation, an application using the PROJ + API can supply its own network implementation through C function callbacks + with :cpp:func:`proj_context_set_network_callbacks`. Enabling network use + must still be done with one of the above mentionned method. + +Setting endpoint +---------------- + +When this is enabled, and a grid is not found in the various locations where +:ref:`resource files are looked for <resource_file_paths>`, PROJ will then +attempt at loading the file from a remote server, which defaults to +https://cdn.proj.org in :ref:`proj-ini`. This location can be changed with +the :envvar:`PROJ_NETWORK_ENDPOINT` environment variable or with +:cpp:func:`proj_context_set_url_endpoint`. + +Caching +------- + +To avoid repeated access to network, a local cache of downloaded chunks of grids +is implemented as SQLite3 database, ``cache.db``, stored in the +:ref:`PROJ user writable directory <user_writable_directory>`. + +This local caching is enabled by default (can be changed in :ref:`proj-ini` or +with :cpp:func:`proj_grid_cache_set_enable`). The default maximum size of the +cache is 300 MB, which is more than half of the total size of grids available, +at time of writing. This size can also be customized in :ref:`proj-ini` or +with :cpp:func:`proj_grid_cache_set_max_size` + +Download API +------------ + +When on-demand loading of grid is not desirable, the PROJ API also offers the +capability to download whole grids in the +:ref:`PROJ user writable directory <user_writable_directory>` by using the +:cpp:func:`proj_is_download_needed` and :cpp:func:`proj_download_file` functions. + + +Mirroring +--------- + +If you are able, you are encouraged to mirror the grids via AWS S3 command line: + +:: + + aws s3 sync s3://cdn.proj.org . + +If direct S3 access is not possible, you can also use wget to locally mirror the +data: + +:: + + wget --mirror https://cdn.proj.org/ + +Acknowledgments +--------------- + +The s3://cdn.proj.org bucket is hosted by the +`Amazon Public Datasets program <https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/>`_. +CDN services are provided by the AWS Public Dataset team via +`CloudFront <https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/>`_ |
