Thanks very much for the clarification, Andrea. I have updated this item in the blog post.
Thanks also to other blog post contributors. (I do not know how to see the history but thanks!) Kind regards, Ben. On 17/06/15 20:20, Andrea Aime wrote: > The image is accurate, yep, but the projection was already there. A > projection handler is a class > used in "advanced projection handling" that knows about the projection > valid area (from a math > point of view) and is used to cut geometries before reprojecting them. > In this case it's used to cut away imprecise geometries/rasters that have > even the slighties bit > outside of the -180,-90,180,90 range, which would make the projection fail. > > All in all, the news is that we have now a better chance of reprojecting a > layer touching the poles > and the dateline with the Van Der Grinten projection, but the projection > itself was already there, > has been there since 2011 acconding to GitHub history: > > https://github.com/geotools/geotools/commits/master/modules/library/referencing/src/main/java/org/geotools/referencing/operation/projection/WorldVanDerGrintenI.java > > Cheers > Andrea > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
