Dylan,
On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
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
Yes, yes I can confirm there have been challenges in the GeoDjango
community for new users. A very common setup is a new user on ubuntu
that installs from packages and hits a wall as the 'Hello World'
application I wrote [1] depends on the 'null' grid for google mercator
transformations and we don't currently have a clean way to check for
these missing files [2].
[1] http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/ and
http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/wiki/GeographicAdminQuickStart
[2] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9295
Dane
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