On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 19:13, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > > Nyall, > > > > > This is a public callout to QGIS developers/support organisations to > > see whether there's currently any work underway, or planned to > > commence shortly, regarding any aspect of datum transformation within > > QGIS. > > > > Specifically, > > - is anyone planning on continuing the work begun in 3.0 for extending > > the support for datum transform context handling within QGIS to ensure > > that more areas of code correctly respect user-set datum transform > > settings? > > - is anyone planning on upgrading QGIS to utilise the newer proj v5 api? > > I'd suggest defering any substantial QGIS work on that topic to the PROJ 6 > release (temptative release date February 2019) where my current work will > land (and it is likely that there will be adaptations needed when integrating > GDAL 2.4 that will rely on PROJ 6). It will likely obsolete a lot of existing > concepts regarding CRS transforms, and in particular the notion of a +towgs84 > pivot (it will still be available of course). For example, in the "datum > transformation", instead of having a Source transform and Destination > tranform, you could have a single Transform field (actually you can already do > this with PROJ 5). And you will be able to select more existing > transformations from the PROJ database, taking into account area of interests.
Perfect -- thanks for the heads up, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer