All,

I would like to congratulate Javier Jimenez for his work to completely refactor 
https://spatialreference.org <https://spatialreference.org/>. First released in 
2007, spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> was the first website 
to provide a canonical home for coordinate systems at fixed URL locations that 
could be referred to by other web infrastructure. Javier took the crusty Django 
site and completely refactored it to make it work better, be easy to update, 
and preserved its canonical URL history. Some highlights include:

* Like https://crs-explorer.proj.org <https://crs-explorer.proj.org/>, 
spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> is now a statically 
generated site 
* It is fast :)
* It is produced using PROJ. 
* It is open source https://github.com/OSGeo/spatialreference.org/ If you want 
to host your own internal mirrors, you can run the scripts and build your own 
deployment
* It will be refreshed at least at the cadence of major PROJ releases 
(previously had been updated only once or twice in its entire 15+ year history)
* It supports CORS (thanks GitHub Pages) for pulling in PROJJSON or WKT into 
your web applications

I hope Javier has more to add about the effort, but I would like to thank him 
profusely for taking this on and completing it. It is a wonderful update to a 
widely used community resource.

Thanks!

Howard
 
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