[R-sig-Geo] Consolidated SRS database/list?

[Vijay Lulla]

Ok, thanks!  While the page provided information about the project and its
funding status I couldn't find the SQLite database.  Do you happen to know
when this will be available?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:02 PM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Vijay Lulla wrote:
>
> > Dear list members,
> > A few years ago Roger Bivand posted a discussion (
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2015-August/023204.html ) about
> > consolidating SRS definitions into a SQLite database and I am wondering
> if
> > there has been any development along those lines.
>
> Rather than trying this just within R, we're hoping that the GDAL
> barn-raising effort:
>
> https://gdalbarn.com/
>
> will take us there and further, and be much better than having a
> non-standard implementation.
>
> When that effort is done, we'll be open for ideas about interfacing it
> through PROJ and GDAL, which now ship with CSV files that we copy into
> Windows and MacOS binary packages (rgdal, sf, lwgeom).
>
> For now, if it helps, rgdal::make_EPSG() reads the EPSG CSV file shipped
> with PROJ into the R workspace as a data.frame.
>
> Roger
>
> > Specifically, is there any consolidated collection of SRS definitions in
> > R (either a data.frame or tibble or SQLite backed) that are being used
> > by geospatial packages that users can use too?  If so, can you please
> > point me to it?  If not, would it be worthwhile to have this
> > consolidated list/dataframe, maybe as part of data for one of the core
> > geospatial packages? Thanks in advance, Vijay
> >
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-- 
Vijay Lulla

Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Geography, IUPUI
425 University Blvd, CA-207C.
Indianapolis, IN-46202
vlulla using iupui.edu
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