Hi,
> obviously the best choice, thanks Juergen. of course this is the best choice, but especially in case of grids not available as part of proj (maybe because the institution that does create the grid has no interest or idea about proj) the use from a user point of view is a pain in the a**, as already commented. the plugin as it was created solves a common, difficult, problem for the users in the most simple and transparent way: as every grid is about a specific A <-> B transformation, then the involved coordinate reference systems are hardcoded with the correct and best definition for that specific grid/transformation. This way the user does not have to worry about anything, it just need to know in what CRS are the input layers. Of course the plugin is not for on the fly transformations, but rather to create copies of layers in new CRSs, with the best possible precision. > re: the Portuguese plugin: why not publishing in the officail repo, as a > first step? we choose a safe approach: let the local users test it extensively. And then our feedback was that most of them wanted a localized plugin. At that time localization in processing was not yet available, so we kept the plugin in a separate repo. This could change, because now processing supports localization (right?) and maybe because others are intersted in expading it to support grids/transformations for other countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giovanni Manghi http://www.naturalgis.pt/ * QGIS Desktop development * WebGIS development * QGIS and PostGIS Training ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
