Hi Dejan,
Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware that the ESRI projections
definitions were modified that often. As I'm working with only a couple
of projections in this project, I'll write the PRJ files manually (and
hope they don't change those definitions in a near future...)
Regards,
Philippe
However, I do see that a whole database of PRJ files has to be
incorporated and matched with a projection database in FW Tools/GDAL,
since the keywords for different PCS, GCS, DATUMS, SPHEREOIDS and other
parameters have to keep the same/identical (they are then stored e.g.
into SDE repository directly after importing a SHP into a GDB, so you
might have different SRID entries for the same Spatial references as you
might have different PRJ files pointing to the same spatial references,
with the same/similar parameters).
However, ESRI is updating its projection database quite often (even
through the SP releases), so reconciling both database could be a huge
task. Not being in sync with the ESRI DB can cause users using GDAL
managed data at ESRI side some problems, especially when calling SRIDs
or having multiple environments, different ESRI SW versions and updates
installed.
However, I would love to see that output files from GDAL have
appropriate PRJ files with it, if this is feasible :-)
Best regards,
Dejan
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