Hey Ross, On Jul 8, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Ross Laidlaw wrote:
> Apologies, I just re-read Chris' original reply and realised that > Chris already addressed many of the questions I just asked! Thanks, appreciate it. > > Sounds like a good idea to have different normalization methods that > can be associated with different CRSs. Proj4J has some useful stuff, > but we could certainly develop our own CRS conversions in SIS instead. > As you guys have discussed previously these could become a major > component/benefit of SIS. Either way we definitely need the > capability to convert coordinates. +1, I think if we had a CRS tied to a Lat/Lon representation then we could easily convert between the 2. As Adam mentioned, if Proj4J is MIT licensed, there's no reason that we can't leverage it in SIS per this page: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
