From 7fbaa0d7d5d77f9a66af32a939a51d20069c40fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Warmerdam Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:50:03 +0000 Subject: Updated the plans section to be more current. git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/trunk@923 4e78687f-474d-0410-85f9-8d5e500ac6b2 --- html/index.html | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'html') diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html index 8e6879d6..4869f669 100644 --- a/html/index.html +++ b/html/index.html @@ -91,26 +91,32 @@ be viewed in BugZilla.

Plans

-I (Frank Warmerdam - -warmerdam@pobox.com) -have been using PROJ.4 for a number -of projects of mine. PROJ.4 has been without maintenance for nearly five -years now since Gerald Evenden retired. I have been in contact with him, and -he has indicated no interest in actively maintaining PROJ.4.

- -It is my intention for this version (here at remotesensing.org) to be the -new official version of PROJ.4. So far I have redone the makefiles and -configuration mechanism to use automake, autoconf and libtool. As well as -couple of portability fixes have been incorporated.

- -It is my hope to involve the +PROJ.4 is in active use by GRASS, MapServer, -and OGDI -communities all of which use some version of PROJ.4 though in some cases -with substantial changes. I am also using PROJ.4 in my own projects, including -using it as the basis of OpenGIS inspired -coordinate transform services.

+OGDI + +OGRCoordinateTransformation as well as various other projects (please +let me know about other projects using PROJ.4!).

+ +Since work started on the PROJ.4.4.x series of releases, various bux fixes +have been incorporated, and the build system has been overhauled to use +autoconf/libtool. Support has also been added for 3 and 7 parameter datum +shifts, the PJ* structure now also carries datum information and +PJ* can be considered a full coordinate system (geographic coordinate +systems are also now supported with the +proj=latlong +pseudo-projection). The new cs2cs program performs a similar function +to the proj program, but transforming from any one coordinate system +to another. The new pj_transform() is used to access the extended +coordinate system to coordinate system transformation with datum shifting. +A mapping file (epsg) has also been introduced mapping most EPSG ( +www.epsg.org) coordinate systems to +PROJ.4 format.

+ +Future plans for PROJ.4 will hopefully include better online documentation, +refinement of datum shifting support, splitting of projects.h into public +and private components and extension of the external programming API +for greater convenience in handling coordinate systems from applications.

If you are a user of PROJ.4, and/or are interested in contributing please drop me a line and join the mailing list.

@@ -118,12 +124,10 @@ drop me a line and join the mailing list.

License

-I have tentatively placed PROJ.4 under an MIT license. I believe this to +PROJ.4 has been placed under an MIT license. I believe this to be as close as possible to public domain while satisfying those who say that a copyright notice is required in some countries. The COPYING file read as -follows: - -
+follows:

 
 All source, data files and other contents of the PROJ.4 package are 
 available under the following terms.  Note that the PROJ 4.3 and earlier
@@ -131,11 +135,12 @@ was "public domain" as is common with US government work, but apparently
 this is not a well defined legal term in many countries.  I am placing 
 everything under the following MIT style license because I believe it is
 effectively the same as public domain, allowing anyone to use the code as
-they wish, including making proprietary derivatives. 
+they wish, including making proprietary derivatives. 

 
 Though I have put my own name as copyright holder, I don't mean to imply
-I did the work.  Essentially all work was done by Gerald Evenden. 
+I did the work.  Essentially all work was done by Gerald Evenden. 

 
+
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  Copyright (c) 2000, Frank Warmerdam
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