Congratulations and thanks to all the sponsors! Best, Angelos
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Excellent news: the last third of the funding was completed yesterday, so > this project will come true ! Thanks to all sponsors who have contributed > making this possible [1] > > > > So what does this mean for GDAL ? Obviously all the functionality > mentionned below will become available once implemented. > > > > Most of the initial work will be done in PROJ first, with GDAL catching it > up afterwards (or in an experimental branch at first to follow the "eat > your own dog food" principle). I'll come back later with more concrete > implementation plans. > > > > I guess some disruption is to be expected temporarily as functionnality > will move from GDAL down to PROJ. This will probably mean that PROJ master > will be a required dependency for GDAL master (and PROJ 6.0 a minimum and > compulsory requirement for GDAL 2.4) > > > > Best regards, > > > > Even > > > > > > [1] > > (Anonymous) > > AppGeo > > Applied Imagery > > Azavea > > Boundless > > Carto > > ESRI > > GeoCue > > LizardTech > > LINZ > > Mapbox > > Mobile Geographics > > Oslandia > > Safe Software > > Sparkgeo > > Spatial Networks > > Radiant Solutions > > Terranodo > > The Timoney Group > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > A barn raising to improve coordinate system abilities in GDAL, > libgeotiff, > > > and PROJ has been publicly launched today. You can find more details > about > > > the proposal, its current sponsors and technical information at: > > > > > > https://gdalbarn.com > > > > > > The hightlights of the planned work are: > > > > > > * migration for CSV support data to a SQLite database shared between > > > projects, offering more capabilities > > > > > > * WKT2 support: increased interoperability between implementations. > better > > > ground for definitions, especially in areas such as axis, vertical > control, > > > and epochs > > > > > > * end of WGS84 as a compulsory datum pivot, to be replaced by > "late-binding" > > > transformations that PROJ.5 now allows. > > > > > > We are currently at 2/3 of the final funding goal. If your software and > > > projects benefit from the GDAL, libgeotiff and PROJ stack, this is your > > > chance to concretely help in its future improvements. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Howard Butler > > > Kristian Evers > > > Paul Ramsey > > > Even Rouault > > > > > > -- > > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > > http://www.spatialys.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD OSGeo Charter Member http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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