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/&gt;>. First 
> released in 2007, spatialreference.org 
> <http://spatialreference.org/><http://spatialreference.org/> 
> <http://spatialreference.org/&gt;> 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/&gt;>, 
> spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org/> 
> <http://spatialreference.org/> <http://spatialreference.org/&gt;> 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
> 
> 
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