On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Chris Holmes <cho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I like the idea. The use case that strikes me as quite nice is someone > > having no idea what the epsg is, but just wanting to look at it in the > layer > > preview. 0 seems like a nice way to represent that. And a nice way to > get > > it in to our system where maybe they could figure out the epsg. With > this > > there you could put in EPSG:0 and then use our force CRS to basically > > declare what the CRS should be after the fact, no? So you wouldn't have > to > > do your guessing before, you could just try various forces and seeing if > > they overlay right. > > > > As for confusing clients - are thinking of advertising EPSG:0 in the > > capabilities document? I suppose we could consider not putting EPSG:0 > > layers in the caps documents, but exposing them in the layer previews and > > rest pages and let people make non-capabilities requests against them. > Once > > someone declares a forceCRS it would then appear. > > I actually wanted to publish it in the capabilities. The reasoning is that > it's > no different from any other custom code. > 900913 is well known about open > source apps, but commercial apps do not know anything about it, yet we > commonly publish through it. > If you have a custom srs it's the same, you come up with a fancy code and > publish it. > > So I think we should treat 0 just the same, it's our easy to remember > custom > code, some client will have troubles dealing with it, yet if you're using > it, > it means you don't have a meaningful epsg code to use anyways. > > Ok, I didn't feel strongly, so am convinced. Though would agree with Justin that we should have some caution, at the least an easy way to turn it off if things go awry. > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Ing. Andrea Aime > Technical Lead > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584962313 > fax: +39 0584962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any > company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >
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