You describe GEOT-511.

I abandoned it because I currently do what you currently do.  If you want
it, it's all yours.

Jesse Eichar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/03/2006 12:28:14 PM:

> So my exact problem is this:
> I have a map whose CRS was determined by the projection from a
> Shapefile (WKT).  I am adding a WMS layer which provides a set of
> EPSG codes that it provides.  I want to see if the CRS of the map
> matches one of those EPSG codes.  Currently we just hope that there
> is an identifier indicating what CRS it is.  We considered creating a
> CRS for each EPSG code and creating the math transform, then checking
> to see if it is an identity transform but that is too slow and
> probably won't match as often as we want since its precision is most
> likely very high.
>
> So I thought that maybe there was( or I could create) a loose
> equals.  For the comparison.  If you would give me tips on how to do
> this or (even better) provide me a better solution I'd appreciate it.
>
> Jesse
>
>
> On 3-Nov-06, at 11:17 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
>
> > Paul Ramsey a écrit :
> >> By "close enough" we generally mean "within the tolerances of
> >> their  serialized representation".
> >> I could have two WKT representations, one with Origin (30.0,
> >> 23.333333) and another with Origin (30.000001, 23.333333333333).
> >> Yes, some definition of "close enough" would be required, but we
> >> are  really looking for "accidental" differences due to
> >> serialization.
> >
> > There is no method performing this kind of "loose equals" for CRS
> > at this time. This is something that we could add. But if
> > "serialization" means "parsing WKT", then an other approach may be
> > to add some (optional - yet an other hint?) intelligence into the
> > WKT parser so that it understand that 30.000001 probably means
> > 30.0. The layer may help when comparing two CRS parsed from WKT,
> > but I'm not sure if it would help when one of those CRS come from
> > EPSG database.
> >
> >    Martin
>


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