Wow, nice work Mr. Jimenez! This site has been a really useful tool over the years and it's really quite obvious how snappy it is now. Thanks so much!
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 9:34 AM Howard Butler via PROJ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PROJ mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj > -- [image: Avenza Systems Logo] Andrew Patterson Lead Software Architect +1 (416) 487-5116 x401 84 Merton St., Toronto, ON, M4S 1A1 ///supply.founders.outreach <https://www.avenza.com/about/contact/> <https://www.facebook.com/AvenzaSystems/> <https://x.com/Avenza> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/avenza-systems-inc-/mycompany/> <https://www.instagram.com/avenzamaps/> <https://x.com/AvenzaMaps> <https://www.facebook.com/AvenzaMaps/> [image: Avenza Events Banner] <https://www.avenza.com/resources/events/>
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