Put a whole write-up here
http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2023/02/proj-network.html

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 8:00 AM Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Feb 2, 2023, at 1:58 AM, James Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the help to look in the right direction.
> > I downloaded the missing data files and it works now.
> >
> > # projsync --system-directory --source-id uk_os
> >
> > postgres=# SELECT st_asewkt(ST_Transform('SRID=7405;POINT(545068 258591 
> > 8.51)'::geometry, 4979));
> >                                st_asewkt
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > SRID=4979;POINT(0.121584703519227 52.20646902224667 54.461915505876696)
> > (1 row)
> >
> > I guess 3.0 reduced what was included by default?
>
> No, this is very much a proj and packaging thing. We just call the API.
> As modern proj got better at grid shifts and finding the best transform 
> chains, the proj team started collecting more grids. Eventually the grid 
> collection got so large that distributing it as one unitary package stopped 
> seeming reasonable. So network/cdn access was adopted, but as a result a 
> "bare" distribution now includes zero grids, whereas before it was common for 
> a packaged proj to at least include grids for the "more common" transforms.
>
> P.
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> >
> > James
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