On Thursday 18 December 2008, Dane Springmeyer wrote: > Dylan, > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Richard Greenwood > > > > <richard.greenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmer...@pobox.com > >> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >>>> However, I am troubled that the Ubuntu proj distribution does not > >>>> seem > >>>> to include the grid ship files. > >>> > >>> I have learned that the DebianGIS packagers are unwilling to > >>> distribute the > >>> grid shift component until there is a licensing statement > >>> available for the > >>> grid shift file .zip file. I am following up with them. In time > >>> I hope > >>> Debian and Ubuntu will include grid shift files (possibly as an > >>> optional > >>> package). > > > > Thanks for following-up on this. I imagine that quite a number of > > mailing list posts regarding datum shifts can be traced back to this > > very issue! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dylan > > Yes, yes I can confirm there have been challenges in the GeoDjango > community for new users. A very common setup is a new user on ubuntu > that installs from packages and hits a wall as the 'Hello World' > application I wrote [1] depends on the 'null' grid for google mercator > transformations and we don't currently have a clean way to check for > these missing files [2]. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/ and > http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/wiki/GeographicAdminQuickStar >t > > [2] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9295 > > > Dane >
Ack. I would ask Frank W. on the GDAL or Proj mailing lists about that. Cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
