All I did was flip the DNS. Javier and Even did all the real work, but I wanted to make sure to get the word out.
It was getting a slight bit embarrassing that the most complete index was an alternative ad-supported site. The authority PROJ brings spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> will continue to inspire confidence in what's published and give people the ability to step forward and conveniently contribute if they desire. > On Jan 8, 2024, at 8:46 AM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Nice work Javier and Howard. A fantastic resource! > > Mike > > > -- > > Michael Smith > Remote Sensing/GIS Center > US Army Corps of Engineers > > > > > > On 1/8/24, 9:34 AM, "PROJ on behalf of Howard Butler via PROJ" > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> on > behalf of [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > All, > > > I would like to congratulate Javier Jimenez for his work to completely > refactor https://spatialreference.org <https://spatialreference.org/> > <https://spatialreference.org <https://spatialreference.org/>> > <https://spatialreference.org/> <https://spatialreference.org/>>. First > released in 2007, spatialreference.org > <http://spatialreference.org/><http://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/> > <https://crs-explorer.proj.org <https://crs-explorer.proj.org/>> > <https://crs-explorer.proj.org/> <https://crs-explorer.proj.org/>>, > spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> > <http://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/<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] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj > <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj>
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