Hello all
Yesterday during the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting, during
the session about Coordinate Reference System (CRS), they were a talk
about EPSG database on SQLite. Because I attended only by telephone, it
was difficult for me to understand well what was being told. Maybe
George Percivall could tell more if he was in the room?
If I understood correctly, one reason for the interest for EPSG on
SQLite is that SQLite is the database engine behind the Geopackage
standard. However I'm not sure if the discussion was about providing
EPSG database in WKT format in a single table, or providing the full
EPSG database with all its tables (the later approach avoid redundancies
thanks to relational database, and enable better coordinate operations
thanks to "late binding" approach).
In the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) project, Sisindaa is
doing a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project which consist in porting
Apache SIS to the Android platform. One aspect of this work implies
porting the EPSG database to SQLite, since it is the database engine
embedded on Android. I have also seen some messages on the Proj.4
mailing list about EPSG on SQLite.
If there is common interest for this topic, what would be the most
appropriate community/mailing list for such discussion? (this list,
Geopackage, etc).
Martin
