On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Richard Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> However, I am troubled that the Ubuntu proj distribution does not seem >>> to include the grid ship files. >> >> >> I have learned that the DebianGIS packagers are unwilling to distribute the >> grid shift component until there is a licensing statement available for the >> grid shift file .zip file. I am following up with them. In time I hope >> Debian and Ubuntu will include grid shift files (possibly as an optional >> package).
Thanks for following-up on this. I imagine that quite a number of mailing list posts regarding datum shifts can be traced back to this very issue! Cheers, Dylan > > Wow, that's a pretty major omission. I of course respect their > position, but it impacts anyone depending on Proj as a shared library > - PostGIS, MapServer, etc. And they're a bit inconsistent if Debian > GRASS is including the grid shifts (but we'll pretend that I didn't > say that so that the GRASS maintainers don't get yelled at). > > Rich > > -- > Richard Greenwood > [email protected] > www.greenwoodmap.com > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
