There is another solution  like the one adopted byQGIS which used also
.qpj with OGC, see Supported Data Formats (qgis.org)
<https://docs.qgis.org/2.2/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html>
 at Supported Data Formats (qgis.org)
<https://docs.qgis.org/2.2/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html>

.qpj example QGIS-Training-Data/polygons.qpj at master ·
qgis/QGIS-Training-Data (github.com)
<https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Training-Data/blob/master/exercise_data/postgis/polygons.qpj>

Il giorno gio 25 ago 2022 alle ore 13:48 <edgar.sol...@web.de> ha scritto:

> reads like Esri is cooking it's own soup there,
>
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/129764/how-are-esri-wkt-projections-different-from-ogc-wkt-projections
>
> so the clean way probably would be, using the Esri definition if we got
> one or none, if we have not presuming that SHP is an Esri format and
> readers would expect those. on the other hand it seems that Gdal is more
> flexible wrt. the prj file format (at least wrt. reading), so maybe what
> they do for _writing_ is the way to go?
>
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/355184/prj-files-from-esri-arent-wkt
>
> ..ede
>
> On 25.08.2022 09:08, Michaud Michael wrote:
> > Ede, Peppe
> >
> > EPSG is good at listing all known coordinate systems in the world but
> unfortunately,
> >
> > standardization to describe them is a slow process and we sometime have
> to deal with
> >
> > different identifiers (ex. epsg/esri), names (wkt/esri convention),
> formats (wkt, wkt2).
> >
> > This post gives some good hints on this problem :
> >
> >
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/355184/prj-files-from-esri-arent-wkt
> <
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/355184/prj-files-from-esri-arent-wkt
> >
> >
> > When I added pe_list_projcs_geogcs, it was because we cannot retrieve
> the exact
> >
> > esri denomination from the srid2prj.txt which is based on epsg data.
> >
> > I don't know why some srid are missing from pe_list_projcs_geogcs but it
> is an esri database not epsg.
> >
> > Now, if the srid is not find in pe_list_projcs_geogcs, I get it
> from srid2prj as sugggested by Peppe but
> >
> > this later does not follow esri naming convention. An "esri" friendly
> name can be retrieved
> >
> > from epsg.io web site, but this is online. I don't know if they use a
> esri database or if they use
> >
> > some rules to make names esri friendly as discussed in the post.
> >
> >
> > Michaël
> >
> >
> >> envoyé : 21 août 2022 à 13:20
> >> de : edgar.sol...@web.de
> >> à : jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> >> objet : Re: [JPP-Devel] OpenJUMP throws a null point exception if
> coord_ref_sys is found
> >>
> >>
> >> On 21.08.2022 10:56, Michaud Michael wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Peppe,
> >>>
> >>> You're right, I found 171 srid in srid2prj which are not
> in pe_list_projcs_geogcs.zip.
> >>>
> >>> Can you remember where the srid2prj file comes from ? And can you
> telle me which projection you use which are not
> in pe_list_projcs_geogcs.zip (just curious).
> >>>
> >>> Using several reference file is far from ideal, but until we find a
> better option, your proposition seems reasonable to me.
> >>>
> >> hmm, a quick text search does not find all of these in
> https://github.com/Esri/projection-engine-db-doc/
> >>
> >> and what i can find is spread over several files. any idea why that is?
> >>
> >> why is there not a _complete_ epsgid/name mapping file somewhere? or is
> there and we are just not using it?
> >> registering and downloading wkt files-zip from
> https://epsg.org/download-dataset.html seems to inlude "all" of the
> missing epsg-ids. should we reformat and use those?
> >>
> >> sunny regards ..ede
> >>
> >>
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