On 13/06/2010, at 5:19 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> My guess is that anybody using a CRS with DMS unit is actually storing
> the data in decimal deegrees, and that providing actual support for
> the DMS unit transformation would just result in confused users.
> 
> 2150 is one of such codes, if I look at spatialreference.org they
> are using deegree as well:
> http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/2150/html/

I hate making assumptions with any of this stuff; any way to contact the 
spatialreference.org (or proj?) about this assumption to see if it common?

> What about:
> a) go down and just change the current behavior to just use
>   decimal degrees. Rationale: CRS with DMS are not usable anyways,
>   so we don't have backwards compatibility issues from that pov

Any way we can only do that when lenient  is true?

> b) alternatively, add a flag to control the DMS/degree behavior.

I would prefer to add a flag; even if the default value is true.
Jody
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